Turners Book entit A preservative or Triacle printed in oct an 1551. Whether these two last be one and the same Person I know not nor can I be positive in it whether Tho. Solme Author of the Lords Flaile be the same with Thom. Solme the Historian THOMAS LANKET or Lanquet whose place of nativity or Hall or Coll. wherein he studied being yet uncertain I shall only say that he being a studious Young Man and curious searcher into ancient History laid the Foundation of a great work I mean a Chronicle consisting of two parts reaching from the beginning of the World to the time of our Saviour and was proceeding with a third part but death preventing the compleating thereof Thom. Croper of Magd. Coll. finished and entituled it Lanquets Chronicle See more in Tho. Cooper under the Year 1594. Lanquet also wrot Treatise of the Conquest of Bulloigne When or where printed I know not nor any thing else of the Author year 1545 only that he died at London in Fifteen hundred forty and Five which was the seven and thirtieth Year of K. H. 8. but in what Church or Yard he was buried I cannot tell THOMAS ELYOT was born as 't is said of a Knightly Family in Suffolk and educated in Academical learning in the Hall of St. Mary the Virgin where he obtained a considerable proficiency in Logick and Philosophy The Year when he first began to salute the Muses it cannot through the deficiency of record be well known unless it should be about the Year 1514 for four Years after an 1518 I find one Tho. Elyot to be admitted ad lecturam alicujus libri facultatis artium Logices Aristotelis which is the admission to the Degree of Bach. of Arts and in the time of Lent the same Year he did compleat that Degree by Determination in School-street It doth also appear that the said Tho. Elyot was in the beginning of Aug. an 1524. admitted ad lecturam alicujus libri Institutionem that is to the Degree of Bach. of the Civil Law Now if we could find that Sir Tho. Elyot was about 50 Years of Age when he died then we may certainly conclude that Elyot the Bac. of Arts and of the Civil Law might be the same with him otherwise we cannot well do it After he had left the University he travelled beyond the Seas and upon his return was introduced into the Court Whereupon being made known to the King a lover of Scholars who found him to be a Person of good parts conferr'd on him the honor of Knighthood and employed him in certain Embassies bejond the Seas particularly to the Emperor Charles the 5th at what time his great Friend and Crony Sir Tho. More was beheaded He was a very good Grammarian Gracian Poet Philosopher Physician and what not to compleat a Gentleman He was admired by and beloved of Scholars and his memory was celebrated by them in their respective works particularly by Leland his contemporary The truth is his Learning in all kind of knowledge brought much honor to all the Gentry and Nobility of England He hath transmitted to posterity The Castle of health Lond. 1541. 1572. 80. 95 c. in oct The Governor in 3 Books Lond. 1544 47. 80. c. in oct Of the Education of Children Lond. in qu. Banquet of sapience Lond. in oct Preservative against the fear of death De rebus memorabilibus Angliae For the compleating of which he had read and perused many old Monuments of England See in Rog. Ascham's Treatise of Archery in two Books p. 28. A Defence or Apologie for good Women Bibliotheca Eliotae Elyots Library or Dictionary Lond. 1541. c. fol. Which work Thom. Cooper augmented and enriched with 33000 words and phrases besides a fuller account of the true signification of words Sir Tho. Elyot also translated from Greek into English The Image of Governance compiled of the Arts and Sciences by Emperor Alexander Severus Lond. 1556 1594 c. oct and from Lat. into Engl. 1 St. Cypreans Sermon of the mortality of Man Lond. 1534 in oct 2 The rule of a Christian life written by Picus Earl of Mirandula Printed there the same Year in oct See more among the translations of Tho. Lupset numb 38. This worthy Knight who was a servant to the King was buried in the Church of Carleton in Cambridgshire of which County he had been Sheriff 25. March in Fifteen hundred forty and six year 1546 and had soon after a Monument put over his Grave Besides several Mannors that he had in Cambridgshire he had one or more in Hampshire JOHN LONGLAND received his first breath in a Mercat Town called Henley in Oxfordshire was first made a Semicommoner or Demie and afterwards Fellow of Magdalen College About which time being Master of Arts and in Orders he addicted himself very severely to study and devotion and became famous for his exemplary life and conversation In 1505 he was made Principal of Magd. Hall in 1510 2. Hen. 8. he was admitted to the reading of the sentences and in the Year after he proceeded in Divinity In Decemb. an 1514 he succeeded Dr. Will. Atwater in the Deanery of Salisbury and in 1519 he was made Canon of Windsore At which time he being in great favour with the King for his excellent way of Preaching he did not only make him his Confessor but also upon the death of Atwater Bishop of Lincoln and about that time Lord Almoner To the same See therefore he being consecrated 5. May 1521 had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto 26. June following In 1528. or thereabouts he was the first Man of account that mention'd a divorce to the King to be between him and his Qu. Catherine for which afterwards when it was known he was much blamed and the more because he took all occasions to forward and not in the least to contradict it In 1532 he was elected Chancellor of the University of Oxen which office he keeping to his dying day shew'd himself a special Friend thereunto in maintaining it privileges and in exhibiting as he had done before to the wants of certain Scholars and in solely maintaining others I have seen divers Epistles written to him from the venerable House of Regents and Non-Regents wherein they in an high manner do proclaim his Religion and Doctrin and do not stick to compare him to Joseph the Patriarch His writings are these Declamatio five concio coram reverendiss in Ch. patribus Domino D. Thomâ Rom. Ecclesiae Presbytero Cardinali Ebor. Archiep. c. laurentio Cardinali sedis Apost de latere quoque Legato principio visitationis Ordinis S. Benedicti apud Westmonasterium initae 10. Jan. 1519. in Gen. 18. Descendam videbo c. Concio babita coram eruditiff Oxoniae Academiae auditorio in jaciendo collegii Cardinalis fundamento an 1525. in Prov. 9. Sapientia aedificavit sibi domum Concio habita coram
ministers of the reformed Churches beyond the Seas maintained against the Donatists Oxon. 1641. qu. Taken I presume by the publisher from our authors book intit A vindication c. At length our author Mason surrendring up his pious soul to him that first gave it not without the great grief of those who well knew his learning and piety in the month of Dec. in sixteen hundred twenty and one was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Orford before-mentioned year 1621 Over his grave was soon after a Monument put with an Inscription thereon which for brevity sake I shall now pass by In his Archdeaconry of Norf. was installed Tho. Muriel M. A. 30. Dec. 1621. After him was installed Writhington White 19 Oct. 1629. and after him Rob. White Bach. of Div. 23. Sept. 1631. who dying in the times of usurpation Philip Tenison was installed in his place 24. Aug. 1660. who dying Edw. Reynolds M. A. and Son to Dr. E. Reynolds B. of Norwich was installed therein 15. Apr. 1661. HENRY JACOB was a Kentish man born entred a Commoner or Batler in S. Maries hall 1579. aged 16 took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became beneficed in his own Country particularly as I have been informed at Cheriton but upon search into that Parish register wherein are the names of all the Rectors of that Church set down since 1591. H. Jacob. occurs not as having been perhaps Rector before that time He was a person most excellently well read in Theological authors but withal was a most zealous Puritan or as his Son Henry used to say the first Independant in England His writings against Francis Johnson a Brownist exile for Jesus Ch. as he stiles himself and Tho. Bilson Bishop of Winton speak him learned With the former he controverted concerning the Churches and Ministers of England and with the other concerning Christs suffering and descention into Hell Which controversie though eagerly bandied to and fro between them yet it was afterwards plyed more hotly in both the Unisities in 1604. and after where Bilsons doctrine was maintained and held up yet publickly opposed by many of our Zealots both at home and abroad At home by Gabr. Powell a stiff Puritan mentioned under the year 1607. and abroad by Hugh Broughton and Rob. Parker I mean that Robert a Divine sometimes of Wilton in Wilts who leaving the Nation for conscience sake died at Deusbourgh in Gelderland in Autumn time or after an 1630. leaving behind him a Widdow named Dorothie and a Son named Thomas author of De traductione peccatoris There were two more brethren at least of the separation who opposed Bilson's doctrine but their names I cannot now justly tell you The works of our author Hen. Jacob are these Treatise of the sufferings and victory of Christ in the work of our redemption c. written against certain errours in these points publickly preached in Lond. 1597. Lond. 1598. oct The points weâ—e 1 That Christ suffered for us the wrath of God which we may well term the pains of Hell or hellish sorrows 2 That Christ after his death on the Cross went not into Hell in his Soul Defence of the Church and ministry of England against Francis Johnson Brownist Middleburg 1599. qu. They had several disputes in Amsterdam about the Church of England being a true Church Defence of a treatise touching the sufferings and victory of Christ in the work of our redemption Printed 1600. qu. Reasons taken out of Gods word and the best humane testimonies proving a necessity of reforming our Churches of England c. Printed 1604. qu. A position against vain glorious and that which is falsly called learned preaching Printed 1604. oct The divine beginning and institution of Christs true visible and material Church Leyden 1610. oct Plain and cleer exposition of the second commandement Printed 1610. oct Declaration and opening of certain points with a sound confirmation of some others in a treatise entit The divine beginning c. as before Middleburg 1611. He hath written and published other things as the Counter poyson c. which being printed by stealth or beyond the Seas year 1621 are rare to be either seen or procured He departed this mortal life in sixteen hundred twenty and one or thereabouts aged 60. years or more but where buried unless in London where he began to gather a congregation in the year 1616. I cannot tell He left behind him a Son of both his names who was afterwards Fellow of Mert. coll and a prodigy for curious and critical learning as I shall tell you at large when I come to him HENRY SAVILE second Son of Hen. Savile by Elizab. his Wife Daughter of Rob. Ramsden Gent. second Son of Joh. Savile of New hall in Yorksh Esq was born at Bradley alias Over-Bradley near to Halifax in the same County on the last day of Nov. an 1549. 3. Ed. 6. made his first entry into this University in the beginning of the year 1561. and then according to the fashion had a Tutor to teach him Grammar and another Dialect or else one and the same person did both In the beginning of Lent 1565. he was admitted Bach. of Arts and forthwith determined to the admiration of his Auditors who ever after esteemed him a good Philosopher About that time an election of Bach. Fellows of Merton coll then in a very poor condition for good Scholars as most places in the University were being made he was chosen one of the number as was Edm. Bunney afterwards a learned Theologist In 1570. our author Savile proceeded in his faculty and read his Ordinaries on the Almagest of Ptolomy Whereby growing famous for his learning especially for the Gr. tongue and Mathematicks in which last he voluntarily read a Lecture for some time to the Academians he was elected Proctor of the University for two years together with Joh. Vnderhill of New college afterwards Rector of that of Lincoln and Bishop of Oxon. For then and after those that executed the Procuratorial office were elected by the Doctors and Masters of the University for learning worth experience and magnanimous Spirits but when the Caroline Cicle was made in 1629. they were elected in their respective Coll. by a few notes In 1578. he travelled into France and other Countries and thereupon improving himself in learning languages and the knowledge of the World and Men became a most accomplished person at his return About that time he was instituted Tutor to Q. Elizab. for the Gr. tongue who taking a liking to his parts and personage was not only the sooner made Warden of Merton coll tho a noted person Bunney before-mentioned was elected with him and presented to the Archb. of Cant. for confirmation but also by her favour was made Provost of Eaton coll in the year 1596. upon the promotion of Dr. Will. Day to the See of Winton While he governed the former which was 36 years Summâ curâ as 't is said diligentiâ
down to Selden and Dugdale that his Title to that name might well be disputed if he should be without it 2ly The management of such a Work as this must necessarily depend as upon a search into ancient Records so upon a Commerce with those Relations and Friends of the deceased Authors which had survived them Those of the Ch. of Rome to which this Author applyed himself have been communicative and industrious in furnishing Materials for this Work and therefore if any thing more largely be said of the Members of that Communion than may be thought necessary it ought to be imputed to the ready concurrence of that party towards a Work of this nature rather than to any propensity of the Author to that Religion The Nonconformâ—sts who bear some sâ—are in this Work have been as usually so little Friends to the carrying on of a publick design and to that free intercourse which ought to be maintainâ—d between all learned Men that very few and those unsatisfactory relations could be obtain'd from them and therefore a true but no very large nor favourable account of their Writings ought to be expected from him And lastly as to those of the Church of England they have generally behaved themselves so well that they have no need to desire flattery noâ— have any reason hâ—â—e to complain of Calumny It is to be hoped therefore since this Author hath endeavoured to shew himself just and indifferent to Men of all professions his love of impartiality will not be mistaken for want of Religion All good Antiquaries Men of enlarged Souls and of an even temper however of divers professions have always been of the same Principle They all equally sacrificed to Truth and Learning and suffered not their private Opinions to put a biass on their History And whoever will compare the Cento's of Bale and Pits with the excellent Works of Leland and Camden must necessarily discern how near an Alliance there is between Zeal and Ignorance and between Learning and Moderation 3. As to the Language the Reader may expect such Words as are suitable to the character of the Work and of the Person It is impossible to think that men who always converse with old Authors should not learn the dialect of their Acquaintance An old Word is retain'd by an Antiquary with as much Religion as a Relick and few are by him receiv'd as English but such as have been naturaliz'd by Speneer Language is the dress of the Thoughts as well as Cloaths of the Person and therefore the Expressions of an Antiquary ought to be priviledg'd as well as his Garb. Words are neither good nor bad if abstracted from Things and therefore they as all Ornaments have no beauty in themselves but receive it by accidents as gracefully suited and apply'd to the Subject Originals are best express'd as found without Alteration and it is not only a mispent but ridiculous labour to change the old Expressions of a Deed and to put a new Stamp upon a Medal Thus much hath in short been said of the Book and somewhat that may prevent Objections may without suspicion of Vanity be added concerning the Author of it When this Work some years since was first undertaken he not only consulted all the Registers relating to the Vniversity but all other Writings and Records MS. and printed whether in the Bodleian Norfolk or Cottonian Libraries whether in the Tower Exchequer Paper Office or elsewhere that could give him any notice of these Authors or let him into the true knowledge of their Lives Preferments and Writings The Registers of the ancient Churches and Cathedrals were diligently consulted the Wills of the deceas'd persons were at the Prerogative Office examin'd the Windows of Churches Epitaphs and Inscriptions have been search'd the Genealogy of the Authors at the Heralds Office hath been nquir'd into and no method hath been unattempted which could contribute to a true History of these Writers or ascertain the least date and circumstance of their Lives This extraordinary care and unwearied industry was undertaken without any other motive than a love to Truth and without any other prospect than the benefit of Posterity The Author never enjoy'd any Preferment nor pursu'd any he liv'd as a Recluse from the World so independent of it and therefore it is not to be wonder'd if he takes such a liberty of Speech as most other Authors out of Prudence Cunning or Design have usually declin'd It might be fit perhaps that some harsh Expressions might be allay'd that a few severe Reflections might be softned and that some Passages at last which seem too hardly charg'd on men otherwise creditable might be wholly omitted but at the same time it is not to be denied That Faults ought no more to be conceal'd than Virtues and that whatever it may be in a Painter it is no excellence in an Historian to throw a veil on Deformities If lastly There should be any defect or failure if Truth which is often too strictly pursued should in one single instance or some little circumstance be mistaken it is at least certainly a just Request that in so great and tedious a Work which oftentimes and almost every where deserves praise any small Errors may be entitled to Pardon A farther discourse of the nature of these Books in general and of the use of this in particular is reserv'd to the second Volume in the mean time all judicious men must be satisfied that the History of Learning which hath hitherto been so much wanting in England is now at last so far advanced and that the Materials at least of so great and so useful a Work are ready and prepar'd In other Countries particularly in France Italy and the Northern Nations now above fifty years the most famous Writers have employ'd their care in the account of Authors and Books and have thought it more necessary to number and marshal than to increase the Forces of the Commonwealth of Learning In England in the mean time an Account of Learning was more defective even than our Civil History Our Authors had been as famous as our Heroes our Writings were as successful as our Battels and yet the Annals of both were so imperfect that either generally we had no representation of them at all or such an one as traduc'd the Original As to our Heroes indeed Tho an universal History to the discredit of this Nation be yet to be desired and in all probability will be long expected yet some independent Relations that give account of one great Action or perhaps of one particular Reign may with honour be remembred but as to our Author's after the ancient Discoveries of Boston and Leland there hath been nothing attempted but some rude and disproportionable draughts of mean and ignorant Designers However now at last it must be own'd That if this Essay may not be just and compleat yet the first Lineaments are so faithfully and exactly drawn that the finishing strokes may without difficulty
into holy Orders and was made Library keeper to K. Ed. 6. who finding him to be a Person of Merit conferr'd the Deanery of Chichester on him about 1551. But when Qu. Mary came to the Crown he left his preferments and as a voluntary exile went into Germany where accompanying other English Exiles that had fled thence for Religion sake continued there till the death of Qu. Mary and then returning was restored to what he had lost and without doubt was rewarded with more While he was beyond the Sea he exercised himself much in writing matters in verse and prose in both which he wrot several things with great happiness especially those to his Brother Thomas to embrace the true Doctrine of Jesus Christ that is to leave the R. Catholick Church turn Protestant and come over to him Among many things that he wrot were Paraenesis lib. 1. Written to his Brother Thomas Carmina in mortem Henrici Dudlaei Analysis Scoparum Johannis Cochlei Exposition of a part of S. John's Gospel made in sundry Readings in the English Congregation against the Arrians Printed the second time in an 1558. oct The Readings were ten and they were performed in the English Congregation beyond the Sea Exposition on the fourth Chapter of S. John's Revelations which treateth of the providence of God made before his Countrymen in Germany Printed 1557. in oct Lond. 1577. and 83. in oct Treatise of Repentance besides other things which are mention'd by Jo. Bate He also translated into English The Chirurgerie of Joh. de Vigo Lond. 1580. qu. 2 Edit and the said Vigo's Little Practice Lond. 1562. in octavo In which year which was part of the third and fourth of Qu. Elizabeth Barth Traberon was if I mistake not living HENRY PENDLETON a zealous man for the R. Cath. Cause was born in Lancashire became a Student in Brasnose Coll. about the year 1538 took the Degrees in Arts and afterwards those in Divinity in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. he being then beneficed and dignified in the Church In the Reign of Qu. Marie he shew'd himself so grand a Zealot for the Cause then professed in several Sermons by him preached that when in one by him delivered at Pauls Cross which was very sharp against the Hereticks as they were then called a Gun was discharged at but miss'd him Under his Name were these things following printed Homilies to be read in the Churches within the dioc of London Lond. 1554. 55. qu. Communication between him and Mr. Lour Sanders Disputation between him and Mr. Joh. Bradford Protestants an 1555. The Contents or part of which Communic and Disput you may see in the book of Acts and Mon. of the Church c. and also Pendleton's Arguings with Bartlet Green and certain Protestant Martyrs Other things he hath written which I have not yet seen and was always accounted a learned Doctor of his time and so endear'd to the Cath. Religion that he made a solemn Protestation in Qu. Maries Reign that he would see the nntermost drop of his Grease molten away and the last gobbet of his Flesh consumed to Ashes before he would forsake God and his truth He lived after Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown and was imprison'd for a time but when or where he died I know not PETER MARTYR who is to have a place in these Athenae was born in the great and rich City of Florence in Italy in Sept. on the Nativity of the Virgin Marie an 1500 educated in several sorts of Learning in that City by the great care of his Father Steph. Vermilius became a Canon regular of the Order of S. Austin at 16 years of age in the Coll. at Fiesoli more than a mile distant from Florence After he had spent three years there he was sent to Padua to enlarge his Learning that University then being in a flourishing Condition and setling in the Monastery of St. John de Verdera of the same Order of S. Austin spent almost 8 years in philosophical Studies and all other Arts especially in the Greek Tongue and Poets which at length he conquered At 26 years of age he began to preach and the first time he performed that Office was in the Church of St. Afra in Brescia and afterwards frequently in the most famous Cities of Italy However all the time that he could obtain from his Function was spent in sacred Learning Philosophy and in obtaining the Hebrew Tongue At length being cried up for a celebrated Scholar he was made Abbat of Spoleto in the Duchy of L'Ombria in Italy where he continued three years Thence he was translated to Naples and there became Abbat of the Monastery of his Order called St. Peter ad aram being of greater profit and a far more pleasant place than Spoleto After he had been setled there for some time he began to see the verity of the Gospel especially after he had read some of the Works of Bucer and Zwinglius Three years being spent there also he fell into a dangerous Sickness but the strength of Nature overcoming it he was advised by his Physitians to take better Air than what Naples afforded To that end therefore that he might with convenience be absent from his Cure the Fathers chose him General Visitor of their Order that is of the Order of S. Austin and soon after was elected Prior of S. Fridian within the City of Luca which is a place of great dignity having Episcopal Jurisdiction in the middle part of the said City Being setled at that place he instituted a most admirable way of Studies for the younger sort at Luca but at length his Opinions as to Heresie then so called being discovered snares were laid for him so that being not in a capacity to speak his mind he by the advice of certain Friends committed the best part of his Library to the Custody of one of them gave another part to the Coll. and forthwith left Luca and went to Pisa whence he wrote Letters to Card. Pole shewing the Reasons of his Departure Afterwards he went into Schwitzerlands and fixed for some time at Zurich Thence to Strasburgh where for about five years he read and taught sacred Letters in which time he took to Wife he being near 50 years of Age one Cath. Dampmartin causing thereupon his Enemies to say that he left his Order and Monastic Vows purposely for the sake of a Woman Which Wife after she had lived with him about 8 years died at Oxon as I shall anon tell you In 1547 he was invited into England by Edward Lord Protector and Dr. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury to the end that his Assistance might be used to carry on a Reformation in the Church In the Month of Dec. the same year he with Bemnardine Ochine another Italian arrived in England and retiring to Lambeth were kindly received by Archb. Cranmer and entertained there for some time About the latter end of the same year in Feb. or
beginning of March Martyr went to Oxon was incorporated Doctor of Div. as he had stood at Padua and tho addicted more to the Zwinglian than to the Lutheran Doctrines in point of the Sacrament was in the beginning of the year following appointed by the King to read a public Lecture to the Academians in the Divinity School and for his reward to have an Annuity of 40 Marks What followed and how he and his Adversaries behav'd themselves thereupon I have largely told you elsewhere In the same year 1548 upon the receeding from the University of Dr. Rich. Smyth the Kings Professor of Divinity that Lecture with the profits belonging thereunto was confer'd by the King on Martyr and in the year following being much troubled with the R. Catholicks as in all the year before he disputed publickly with three of the most eminent of them as I have also told you in the same place In the year 1550 he had a Canonrie of Ch. Ch. bestowed upon him by the King on the death of Mr. Will. Haynes whereupon being installed 20 January the same year entred into his Lodgings belonging to him then joyning on the North side to Ch. Ch. great Gate leading into Fishstreet With him also setled his beloved Wife Catherine as the Wife of Dr. Rich. Cox did about the same time with him in the Deans Lodgings being the first Women as 't was observ'd that resided in any Coll. or Hall in Oxon. By whose Example it was not only permitted that any Canon beside might marry if he please but also a Head of a Coll. or Hall whereby other Women or idle Huswives were tolerated if the said Head allowed it to serve in them Which act beside their permitting of bawling Children to come among them was looked upon as such a damnable matter by the R. Catholicks and others too that they usually stiled them Concubines and the Lodgings that entertained them and their Children Stews and Cony-buries While Martyr continued in the said Lodgings whose Windows were next to Fishstreet he continually especially in the night time received very opprobrious Language from the R. Catholicks as well Scholars as Laicks and often had his Windows broken So that his Studies and Sleep being often disturb'd he changed his Lodgings which were those belonging to the Canons of the first Canonry for those in the Cloyster which belonged to those of the second being formerly the very same which belonged to the Prior of S. Frideswide in which being setled he spent the remaining part of his Abode in Oxon in Peace However for the severer enjoyment of his Thoughts and Studies he erected a Fabrick of Stone in his Garden situated on the East side of his Lodgings wherein he partly composed his Commentary on the first Ep. to the Corinthians and certain Epistles to learned men which were afterwards printed This Fabrick which contained two Stories stood till the latter end of March 1684 at which time they were plucked down by that Canon that was Owner of the Lodgings to which the Garden and Fabrick appertained About that time Martyr's Wife dying she was buried in the Cathral Church near to the place where S. Frideswydes Reliques had been reposed but four years after or thereabouts her body was taken up thrown out of the Church with scorn and buried in a Dunghil but when Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown the body was taken up again and reburied as I have elsewhere at large told you After the death of K. Edward 6. and Religion alter'd when his Sister Mary was setled in the Throne Pet. Martyr left Oxon went to London and so to Lambeth and obtaining his safe Conduct from the Qu. he left England and went to Strasburgh from whence he came where he taught Philosophy and Divinity for some time Thence he travell'd to Zurich an 1556. where he met with Joh. Juell and several exil'd Divines of England and took to his second Wife one Catherina Merenda While he continued there Maximilian Celsus an exil'd Count and the chief Minister of the Italian Church at Geneva died whereupon being invited to take his place upon him refused it for several Reasons When Qu. Mary died Queen Elizabeth invited him to return into England and there to accept of what Preferment he pleas'd but he fearing another mutation he modestly refused it To pass by several other matters not now fit to be related I shall give you the Titles of some of his Works as they follow Comment in Epist S. Paulis ad Romanos Bas 1558. fol. translated into Engl. by H. B. Lond. 1568 fol. Com. in priorem ad Corinth Epistolam Written at Oxon. and ded to K. Ed. 6. Printed several times at Zurich in fol. Defensio doctrinae veteris Apostolicae de Sacramento Eucharisticae adversus Step. Gardineri librum sub nomine M. Antonii Constantii editum c. Printed in fol. 1502 in four parts Tractatio de Sacramento Eucharistiae habita Oxonii cùm jam absolvisset interpretationem xi Capitis prioris Epistolae ad Corinthios Printed 1562. fol. Translated into English and printed at Lond. in qu. Disputatio de Eucharistiae Sacramento habita in Schola Theol. Oxon. Printed 1562 and translated into English Com. in Genesin Tig. 1579. fol. Com. in lib. Judicum Tig. 1582. fol. which is the second or third Impression Translated into English and printed at Lond. in fol. 1564. Com. in lib. duos posteriores Regum Heid 1599. fol. Com. in Samuelis Prophetae libros duos Tig. 1595. fol. Loci communes sacrarum literarum Tig. 1587. fol. Translated into English and printed at Lond. in fol. De lib. arbitio De providentia praedestinat Tig. 1587. fol. An Deus sit causa author peccati An missa sit sacrificium Ib. eod an fol. Theses propofitae ad disputandum publicè in Schola Argentinensi an 1543. Ib. eod an fol. Ib. eod an fol. Oratio de Utilitate dignitate sacri Ministerii Oratio de Morte Christi Oratio de Resurrectione Christi These three last are also translated into English and printed at Lond. in fol. 1583. Sermo in xx cap. Johan Christus die unto Sabbat c. 'T is translated into English and printed 1583. Exhortatio ad sacrarum literarum studium Translated also into English Oratio quam Tiguri primam habuit cum in locum D. Conradi Pellicani successiscet Translated also into English Adhortatio ad coenam Domini Mysticam Translated also Epistolae Theologicae Some of which were written at Oxon. and also translated into English and published Note that P. Martyr's Common places and all those things that follow which I have said were translated were put into the English Tongue by Anth. Marten Gentleman Sewer to her Majestie Lond. 1583. fol. One Anth. Marten of London was Father to Sir Hen. Marten as I shall tell you among these Writers ann 1641. Whether the same with the Translator I cannot yet tell Praeces ex Psalmis Davidis desumptae Tig.
against her The second doth handle her title to the Crown of England and the third doth answer the book of Joh. Knox the Scot entit Against the monstrous government of Women But not long after the said book was published John Lesley Bishop of Ross in Scotland who at that time was Embassador for the said Qu. of Scots in England did more largely handle in the second book of a treatise which he published her title to the Crown of England c. Thus he so that according to this Authors opinion here quoted Lesley had no hand in the said treatises but in another different from them which I think is most true At length after our Author Morg. Philipps had suffered about 17 years exile died at Lovaine year 1577 or rather at Doway in Fifteen hundred seventy and seven for on the 15. Feb. the same years was a Commission granted from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury to George Farmour of Estneston in Northamptonshire Esq to administer the goods debts chattels c. of Morgan Philipps Clerk sometimes Chauntor of the Cath. Ch. of St. David who lately died in parts beyond the Seas THOMAS DORMAN was born at Berchamstede in Hertfordsh partly educated in the Free-School there under Mr. Rich. Reve a Protestant by the care and exhibition of his Uncle Tho. Dorman of Agmondesham alias Amersham in the Country of Bucks and partly in Wykehams School near to Winchester At length being made full ripe for the University he was elected Probationer-Fellow of New Coll. but leaving that house before he was made compleat Fellow upon what account I know not was after Qu. Mary came to the Crown elected Fellow of Allsouls Coll. in 1554 where following his studies with indefatigable industry was admitted in the University to the reading of any book of the institutions of the Civil Law an 1558. But upon the alteration of Religion which soon followed in the beginning of Qu. Eliz. he left all he had in the University his friends country and patrimony and went to Antwerp where being encouraged in his studies by Dr. Tho. Hardyng then an Exile in those parts and therefore zealously took his part against Jewell became Bach. and at length Doctor of Divinity He hath written A proof of certaine articles in religion denied by Mr. Jewell Antw. 1564. qu. A request to Mr. Jewell that he keep his promise made by solemne protestation in his late Sermon at Pauls cross 15 June 1567. Lond. 1567. oct Disproof of Mr. Alex. Nowells reproof Antw. 1565 qu. Besides other things which being printed beyond the Seas we seldom see them in these parts As for the death of this our learned and pious Author year 1577 which hapned at Tournay in the Law Countries about Fifteen hundred seventy and seven this note following written in a MS. remaining in the English Coll. of Seculars at Doway doth intimate thus of it Thomas Dormannus vir doctus qui unum aut alterum librum edidit contra Haereticos postea fuit pastor in civitate Tornacensi ibidem obiit circa an 1577. GEORGE GASCOIGNE an Esquire and an Essex Man born had his education in both the Universities chiefly as I conceive in Cambridge whence being translated to Greys Inn to study the municipal Law made less progress in that profession than in Logick which was but little for having a rambling and unfixed head he left that place went to various Cities in Holland and became a Soldier of note which he afterwards professed as much or more as learning and therefore made him to take this motto Tam Marti quam Mercurio From thence he went into France to visit the fashions of the royal Court there where he fell in love with a Scottish Dame At length being weary of those vanities and his rambles in other Countries he returned into England and retiring to Greys Inn again was esteemed by all ingenious Men there to be a Person of breeding eloquent and witty the most passionate among them to bewail and bemoan by his dexterous Pen the perplexities of love and the best of his time for his activity in advancing the stage part Afterwards receeding to his patrimony at Walthamstow in the Forest within the Province of Essex at which place if I mistake not he was born he published several matters among which are these that follow Flowers Poems so called The first of which is entit The anatomie of a Lover The second The arraignment of a Lover The third The passion of a Lover and the last is The Lover encouraged by former examples determineth to make virtue of necessity Several of these Poems are contained in those made by him called The Devises The delectable historie of sundry adventures passed by Dan Barthelmew of Bathe This is written in verse The Reporter or the Reporters conclusion This is also a Poem Fruits of War written upon this Theame Dulce bellum inexpertis Began to be written at Delft in Holland Hearbs Poems so called In which are several translations as I shall tell you anon and several copies of verses that are in The Devises Weedes Poems so called with several things intermix'd in prose The Divises These are also Poems among which are various copies of verses made by our Author on certain Theams given by several Gentlemen among which are Francis and Anthony Kynwelmersh Essexians and noted Poets of their times the former having had several Poems printed in a Book entit The paradise of dainty Devises Lond. 1578 Alex. Nevill of Cambridge Richard Courtop c. The steele Glass A Satyre Lond. 1576. qu. Before which is the Authors picture in armour with a ruff and a large beard On his right hand hangs a musquet and bandileers on his left stands books and inkhorn and under him is written Tam Marti quam Mercurio Among several commendatory verses set before it Walt. Rawley of the Middle Temple hath one The complaynt of Phylomene An Elegie Lond. 1576. qu. This Elegy was begun in Apr. 1562 continued in Apr. 1575 and finished the 3 day of the same month 1576. Discourse of the adventures of Mr. F. J. Freeman Jones Written mostly in prose about 1572. Glass of government A tragical comedie so entit because therein are handled as well the rewardes of virtue as also the punishment for vice Lond. 1575. qu. Written partly in rhime but mostly in prose Princelie pleasures at Kenilworth castle A mask written in verse and prose 'T is a relation of the entertainment of Qu. Elizabeth given to her there by Robert Earl of Leycester 9. 10. 11. c. of July 1575. Certaine notes of instruction concerning the making of verse or rime in English This is written in prose He also translated from Italian into English 1 The suppeses a Comedy Originally written by Aristo This Com. was set out by Gascoigne and publickly acted at Greys Inn in 1566. 'T is among his Poems called Hearbes 2 The pleasant fable of Ferdinando Jeronimi and Leonora de Valesco Transl
one George Feres Burgess for Plymouth to sit in a Parliament then held whether the same I know not WILLIAM WHITTYNGHAM Son of Will. Whittyngham Gent. by his Wife the Daughter of Haughton of Haughton Tower Son of Will. Whittyngham of Over Son of Seth Whittyngham of Swanlow in Cheshire was born in the City of Chester became a Commoner of Brasnose Coll. in the sixteenth year of his age 1540 or thereabouts where being put under a careful Tutor did make great proficiency in learning In 1545 he was elected Fellow of Allsouls College being then Bach. of Arts in which faculty proceeding two years after was made one of the Senior Students of Ch. Church at what time it was founded by K. Hen. 8. and endeavoured by him to be replenish'd with the choicest Scholars in the University On the 17. May 1550 he had leave granted to him to travel for 3 years by the Dean and Canons of the said house whereupon he went into France and remaining in the company of learned Men there for some time had intentions to go into Italy but being prevented by sickness which took him at Lyons he spent some time among the Students in Paris but chiefly in the University of Orleance About that time if I mistake not he took to Wife Catherine the Daughter of Lewis Jacqueine by his Wife the heir of Gouteron Lord of Ingrue and Turvyle near to the said City of Orleance After he had spent more than an year there he went to certain Universities in Germany and thence to Geneva where tarrying till towards the latter end of K. Ed. 6. he returned into England But that King dying and Religion seeming to put on another face he went with other company into France where hearing soon after that certain Protestant Divines of England were for Religion sake fled to Frankfort and were about with license from the Magistrate to settle a Church there did hasten thither and entred himself into their association But they dissenting among themselves concerning matters pertaining to Religion were forced to disjoyn and those that did best like of the forms of government of the Church of England in the days of K. Ed. 6. were to remain at Frankfort and those that liked better the order and discipline of the Church at Geneva were to go to that place among whom Whittyngham was one and the chiefest as you may farther see in a book entit A brief discourse of the troubles begun at Frankford 1554 Printed 1575 wherein the opposite and restless humour of this Person may easily be discern'd Soon after their settlement at Geneva John Knox a Scot Minister of the English congregation there was to leave that place and return to his Country so that Whittyngham being look'd upon as the fittest Person to succeed was earnestly desired by Joh. Calvin to take that employment upon him but he alledging that in his former travels and observations with the learning of several languages he had fitted himself more for state employment than that he modestly denied it At length Calvin urging him farther he was thereupon made a Minister according to the Geneva fashion and then took the employment upon him Soon after Miles Coverdale Christop Goodman Anth. Gilby Tho. Sampson Wil. Cole of C. C. Coll. and this our Author Whittyngham undertook the translation of the English Bible but before the greater part was finished Qu. Maary died So that the Protestant Religion appearing again in England the exil'd Divines left Frankfort and Geneva and returned into England Howbeit Whittyngham with one or two more being resolv'd to go through with the work did tarry at Geneva an year and an half after Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown At the same time also he turned into meter those Psalmes that we to this day sing in our Churches inscribed with W. W. They are in number five of which the 119 Psalme is one as large as 22 other Psalmes as also the ten commandments and a prayer at the end of the book of Psalmes At length Whittyngham returning into England he was appointed to go in company with Francis Earl of Bedford to condole the death of the French King an 1560 and soon after to go with Ambrose Earl of Warwick to Newhaven to be preacher there while the said Earl defended it against the French Where tho he shew'd himself ready in his function yet he spared not to perswade the English from Uniformity and observance of the rites and ceremonies of the Church Notwithstanding this so great a respect had the said Earl for him that upon writing to his Brother Robert Earl of Leycester he procured for him from the Queen the Deanery of Durham in 1563 in the place of Ralf Skinner Which Deanery the Queen having partly promised Dr. Tho. Wilson one of the Secretaries of State was forced by the over-intreaties of the said Earl to give it to Whittyngham who enjoying it about 16 years was then succeeded by the said Wilson who enjoyed it not two years After Whittyngham had remained there for some time Sir Will. Cecill Secretary of State was made Lord Treasurer in whose place Whittyngham was among others nominated and had he stirred in it and made interest with his friend Robert Earl of Leycester he might have obtained it About the same time the order of the sacerdotal vestures being generally established for Church-men and so pressed that they that would not use the same should not be permitted to exercise their Ministry he then and not before submitted himself thereunto And being upbraided therewith for so doing by one that had been with him at Geneva he answered that he and others knew and had heard John Calvin say that for external matters of Order they might not neglect their Ministry for so should they for tithing of Mint neglect the greater things of the Law And as concerning singing in the Church Whittyngham did so far allow of it that he was very careful to provide the best songs and anthems that could be got out of the Queens Chappel to furnish his choire withal himself being skilful in Musick To pass by the good service he did his Country against the Popish rebels in the North-parts of England in 1569 and his Church of Durham in repelling the Archbishop of York his visiting it an 1578. I shall only take notice that whereas he is stiled by certain Authors the false and unworthy Dean of Durham was because he was only Master of Arts the statutes of the Ch. of Durham requiring that the Dean thereof should be Bach. of Divinity at least that he was not a Minister according to the form of the Church of England but of Geneva and that he was but a luke-warm conformist at the best The publick works that he hath done as to learning are 1 His Translation of the Geneva Bible 2 His turning into Meter several of the Psalmes of David as I have before told you 3 His translation into Latine the Liturgie of the Church of
a copy of verses written to Thom. Legh of Adlington Esq must be understood of Bishop Coxe before mention'd NICHOLAS SAUNDERS the most noted defender of the R. Cath. cause in his time was born at Charlewood in Surrey educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an 1548 Bach. of the Laws 3 year after and about 1557 Shagling Lecturer or as he himself saith tanquam regius professor juris canonici But Religion putting on another face in the beginning of Q. Eliz. he left England about 1560 and going to Rome was made Priest and D. of D. and soon after went with Cardinal Stanislaus Hosius to the Council of Trent where he shew'd himself to be a Man of great parts by his several disputations and arguings Which Cardinal having an especial respect for made him his individual comparison in his journey into Poland Prussia and Lithuania As for the chief actions of his life that followed his Sisters Son John Pitseus will tell you But that which I must not forget now to let you know is that when he was a Nuntio from P. Gregory 13 into Ireland where he with 3 Ships full of Spaniards landed at Smerwick in Kerrey about the first of July 1579 to encourage the Irish there to take up arms and rebel against Qu. Elizabeth was after they with the said Spaniards had been overcome by the English forced to abscond in caves dens woods c. At length after two years time being not able to hold out longer did miserably perish by hunger and cold at the same time as my Author saith but as it seems false that Gerald Fitz-Gerald Earl of Desmond chief captain of the rebels was taken in a poor cottage and kill'd Of which matter hear what the learned Canmden tells us The principal of whom meaning the priests that persuaded the said Earlto forfeit his allegiance to his Prince was Nich. Saunders an English Man who very near at the same instant of time was miserably famish'd to death when forsaken of all and troubled in mind for the bad success of the rebellion he wandred up and down among woods forests and mountains and found no comfort or relief In his pouch were found several speeches and letters made and written to confirm the rebels stuffed with large promises from the Bishop of Rome and the Spaniard Thus the divine justice if a Man may judge stopped that mouth with hunger which had been always open to encourage rebellions and to belch forth malicious lies and slanders For to omit other things he was the first Man that broached that abominable lye concerning the birth of Qu. Elizabeths Mother which no Man in those days though the hatred and the malice of the Papists was then fresh against her and might remember it ever knew England in full forty years after never heard of the computation of time doth egregiously convince of falshood and vanity and he forgetting himself which a lyar should not do doth himself plainly confute c. The things that he hath written are mostly these The supper of our Lord set forth according to the truth of the Gospel and Cath. Faith with a confutation of such false doctrins as the Apologie of the Church of England Mr. Al. Nowells challenge or Mr. Jewells reply have uttered touching the real presence of Christ in the Sacrament In seven books Lovain 1566 in a thick qu. Answered by Will. Fulke of Cambridge A Treatise of the images of Christ and of his Saints and that it is unlawful to break them and lawful to honour them With a confutation of such false doctrine as Mr. Jewell hath uttered in his reply concerning that matter Lov. 1567. oct Brief declaration which is the true Church of Christ This is written by way of preface to the Treatise of the images c. The rock of the Church wherein the primacy of St. Peter and of his Successours the Bishops of Rome is proved our of Gods word Lov. 1567 and St. Omer 1624. in oct Answered by the said W. Fulke Brief treatise of Usurie Lov. 1568. oct De typicâ honorariâ imaginum adoratione lib. 2. Lov. 1569. oct Sacrificii missae ac ejus partium explicatio Lov. 1569. oct Tractatus utilis quod Dominus in sexto capite Johannis de sacramento Eucharistiae propriè sit locutus Antw. 1570. in tw De visibili Monarchiâ Ecclesiae lib. 8. c. Lov. 1571. ' Antw. 1581. Wiceburg 1592. fol. In which book written before the Author went into Ireland he doth avow the Bull of P. Pius 5. against Qu. Elizab. to have been lawful and affirmeth that by virtue thereof one Dr. Nich. Moreton an old English fugitive and conspirator was sent from Rome into the north parts of England to stir up the first rebellion there whereof Charles Nevile Earl of Westmorland was a head captain And thereby it may manifestly appear to all Men how the said Bull was the ground of the rebellions both in England and Ireland De clave David seu regno Christi lib. 6. contra columnias Acleri pro visibili Ecclesiae Monarchiâ Wiceburg 1592. fol. De origine ac progressu schismatis Anglicani lib. 3. quibus historia continetur maxima ecclesiastica annorum 60 lectu dignissima c. Col. Agrip. 1585. Rom. 1586. Ingolst 1588. Col. Agrip. 1590. c. oct Which book being left in many places imperfect was supplied augmented and corrected by Edw. Rishton Afterwards the book being translated into French and printed 1673-4 gave occasion to Gilbert Burnet D. D. to write his two volumes of The Historie of the reformation of the Church of England In the appendix to the first of which you may read more of Saunders and his work de Schismate as also of Edw. Rishton and his corrections and additions of and to that book De justificatione contra colloquium Altenburgense lib. 6. in quibus c. Aug. Trev. 1585 in a thick oct This sometimes goes under the title of De Lutheranorum dissidiis circa justificationem Col. Ag. 1594. oct De militantis Ecclesiae Rom. potestate Rom. 1603. qu. De martyrio quorundam temp Hen. 8. Elizab. printed 1610. oct with other things which I have not yet seen the titles of which you may see in Joh. Pitseus who tells us that he died in Ireland about 1580. yet Edw. Rishton who was his contemporary and knew him well saith in the preface to the first edition of the book De orig progressu schism printed at Col. Agrip. 1585 that he died in Ireland in the County of Kerrey in Fifteen hundred eighty and one year 1581 So that how it comes to pass that Camden should say that he died in 1583 I cannot justly tell unless his information was that he died at that instant of â—â—me as is before said when the E. of Desmond was killed which was 1583 as he saith The reader must now know that whereas
about him the charms of a plausible behaviour of a fluent tongue and good parts and another who was his most beloved friend saith that he was upright in conscience deep in judgment and ripe in Eloquence As for the works by him written and published under his name they are these Nectar Ambrosia Trag. Much praised by Greg. Martin Rationes decem oblati certaminis in causa fidei redditae Academicis Angliae Printed first of all privately in the house of one Stonor a Cath. Gent. living near to Henly in Oxfordshire an 1581 afterwards at least five times publickly beyond the Seas of which once was at Aug. Trev. 1583 in Concertat Eccles Cath. and at length were translated into English Lond. 1687. qu. These reasons were very learnedly answered by Will. Whittaker of Cambridge and replyed upon by John Durey a Scot which Durey was answered by Dr. Laur. Humphrey Nine articles directed to the Lords of the Privy Council an 1581 See more in Mer. Hanmer under the Year 1604 and in Rob. Persons an 1610. Various conferences concerning Religion had with Protestant Divines in the Tower of London on the last of Aug. and on the 18 23 and 27. of Septemb. 1581. Lond. 1583. qu. Among those Divines that he disputed with were Alex. Nowell Dean of St. Pauls Cath. and Will. Day Dean of Windsore The History of Ireland in two books Written 1570. The MS. or original of which being in the Cottonian Library was afterwards published by Sir James Ware of Dublin Knight Dubl 1633. fol. Chronologia Universalis Much commended by Greg. Martin before-mention'd Narratio de divortio Hen. 8. Regis ab uxore Catherina Printed at the end of Nic. Harpesfeild's Ch. History at Doway by the care of Rich. Gibbon a Jesuit who also added thereunto a Lat. translation of John Speeds Catalogue of religious Houses Colleges and Hospitals in England and Wales Ingolst 1602. oct Orationes Epistolae Tractatus de imitatione Rhetoricâ Among which orations are those as I suppose which he made at the funeral of Sir Tho. Whyte and of the Lady Amey Robsert the first Wife of Robert Earl of Leycester whose body having been at first buried in Comnore Church near Abendon for there she died or rather was murdered in the mannor house there belonging to Anth. Forster Gent. 8. Sept. 1560 was taken up and reburied in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Oxon. Literae ad Rich. Chenaeum Episc Glocestr The beginning of which is Non me nunc alium c. Letters to Everard Mercurian General of the Society of Jesus giving an account of his proceedings in England an 1580. Printed in Lat. in Concertatio Eccles Cath. in Anglia part 1. p. 3. and elsewhere Besides all these are other things of our Author Compian which I have not yet seen that were collected and published among some of his works by Silvester à Petra Sancta a Jesuit of Italy printed at Antw. 1631. in tw but those things being scarce and rare to be had I can make no farther report of them nor their Author only that he with other Rom. Priests having been found guilty of treason according to the Act of 25. Ed. 3. and of adhering to the Bishop of Rome the Queens Enemy and of coming into England to disturb the peace and quiet of the Realm c. were executed at Tybourne near London on the first of Decemb. in Fifteen hundred eighty and one year 1581 but what afterwards became of Campians carcass I know not Paul Bombin a Jesuit hath written his Life and Martyrdom published at Antw. 1618. in 12o. and afterwards at Mantua an 1620. in oct But that Pamphlet which I have several years look'd after but in vain is the Report of the death and martyrdom of E. Campian R. Sherwyn and A. Briant printed in English in oct soon after their death The two last of which I am now about to mention RALPH SHERWYN where born unless in the Western parts of England I know not was made Fellow of Exeter Coll. by Sir Will. Petre a principal benefactor thereunto in July 1568 went through with great industry the several classes of Logick and Philosophy and in 1574 proceeding in Arts was made Senior of the Act celebrated 26 July the same year being then accounted an acute Philosopher and an excellent Grecian and Hebritian Afterwards he with Joh. Currey M. of A. and Fellow of the said Coll. obtaining leave to travel beyond the Seas in July 1575 left the University utterly renounced the Religion in which he had been mostly educated went to Doway spent some time in the study of Divinity in the English Coll. there and was made Priest with Laur. Johnson who afterwards was hanged by the name of Richardson 23. March 1576 7. In that place and for a time in the English Coll. at Rome he continued in making progress in divine studies till about the beginning of 1580 and then instead of going into England with certain Persons of his society into the Mission he went to Rheimes upon publick concerns to be had with Thom. Goldwell Bishop of St. Asaph then there who being at that time in a sickly condition and therefore not able to serve Sherwin and his Brethren as to Episcopal confirmation and other matters relating to the mission he waited upon the said Bishop in the quality of a Chaplain during his sickness Afterwards being well and sent for to Rome Sherwin went into England and before he was quite settled in London he was taken in the house of one Roscarriot or Roscarrock committed Prisoner to the Marshalsea and had fetters fastned to his legs While he continued there he had notice once or twice that he should prepare himself to dispute with certain Protestant Divines whereupon shewing himself very ready to encounter them he was translated to the Tower of London where after he had many questions proposed to him concerning Campian Persons and other Priests he shew'd himself afterwards to be a Man of parts and one that needed not to be asham'd of his education in Exeter College At length after he had continued there more than an year in great misery was at length tried for his life and refusing several times the Oath of Supremacy and going to hear service in the Protestant Churches was condemned to die His writings are Discourse in the tower of London with Edm. Campian the Jesuit ◠account of the disputations in Wisbich Castle between Will Fulk of Cambridge and certain R. Priests who were Prisoners there These two are not printed but kept in MS. as choice reliques among R. Cath. beyond the Sea Where or else in the Tower Rich. Stanyhurst saw them Epistles and Letters to divers Persons Two of which are in a book entit Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae Aug. Trev. 1594. fol. 71. 72. c. See more of him in the latter end of Pet. White under the Year 1590. At length being found guilty of high treason was hang'd drawn
Clemency could not be drawn into a Persuasion that in case of Religion Men should be burnt hang'd or quartered And therefore it was that one reporteth that he always was in animo Catholicus and another that he was of such credit and favour in Rome as if he was the greatest Papist in England He wrote as it is said several things pertaining to the Law but none of them are extant only this if I may say it is his and not his Name set to it for sale sake A Treatise concerning Statutes or Acts of Parliament and the Exposition thereof Lond. 1677. oct Whether ever before printed I know not Speeches spoken during the time of his Chancelorship MS. This great and worthy Person dyed on the 20th of November in one thousand five hundred ninety and one year 1591 aged 51. and was buried in the upper part of St. Paul's Cathedral in London on the 16th of December following Soon after came out a little Book of Verses made on his Death by several Hands intit Musarum plangores Christopher Lord Hatton Son of John Hatton the nearest Knsman of the Male Line to the aforesaid Sir Christopher was not of St. Mary's Hall but of Jesus College in Cambridge and afterwards a Doctor of the Civil Law of Oxon as I shall elsewhere tell you He published the Psalms of David with Titles and Collects according to the matter of each Psalm Printed at Oxon 1644. in oct and afterwards enlarged and published several times These Collects or Prayers at the end of every Psalm were compiled by Dr. Jeremiah Taylor and so were the Devotions for the help and assistance of all Christian People which are at the end of every impression of the aforesaid Book yet notwithstanding they go all under the Name of the aforesaid Christop L. Hatton having his Arms in the Title of them who dying 4 July 1670. being then or lately a Member of the Privy Council to his Majesty was buried in a private Chappel of the Collegiate Church at Westminster dedicated to St. Peter opposite to the Capella Regum on the North side See more in Jer. Taylor under the year 1667. BARTHELMEW CHAMBERLAINE was born of and descended from an ancient and gentile Family in Oxfordshire admitted Scholar of Trinity Col. 7. June 1563. aged 17 years Probationer in 67 and Fellow the year after About that time entring into Holy Orders he became a noted Preacher in these parts took both the Degrees in Divinity that of Doctor being compleated 579. before which time he was beneficed and dignified in the Church but where I cannot justly say He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 The Passion of Christ and benefits thereby on Heb. 9. 28. Lond. 1581. and 1613. oct 2 Concio ad Academicos Oxomienses in Comitiis An. 1576. Lond. 1584. qu. 3 Sermon at Pauls on Amos 3. 6. Lond. 1589. oct 4 Sermon at Farington in Berks on Lond. 1571. oct with others which I have not yet seen Between the time of the first coming of the said Barth Chamberlain to Trinity College to the year 1578. I find seven of his Sirname to be Students in the said College and some after but cannot in all my searches find out George Chamberlaine who was afterwards Bishop of Ypre and whether he ever abode in this University in the condition of a Student I cannot justly say it The said George Chamberlaine was the eldest Son of George Chamberlaine Esque by his Wife the Daughter of Moses Pring of Gaunt in Flanders and he the second Son of Sir Leonard Chamberlaine of Oxfordshire Knight Governor of the Isle of Guernsey who dyed there 2. Eliz. From which Sir Leonard are the Chamberlains of Sherburn in the said County desended the Heiress general of which Family named Elizabeth was married to John Nevile Baron of Abergavenny The said George Chamberlatine who was Bishop of Ypre was born at Gaunt before-mentioned An. 1576. and being bred up ro Learning and Religion became successively Canon Archdeacon and Dean of St. Bavon in Gaunt and at length in 1626. was made Bishop of Ypre within the Province of Machlin in Brabant on the Death of Antonius de Hennin where being settled he became much admired as he was partly before for his great Piety for his voluble Preaching in five Languages at least and beloved of Kings and Princes c. Had I time and room allowed I would give you a Copy of an Epitaph made on by one that knew and much admired him wherein no doubt but that high character of his Piety Learning and Worth is justly said but I must hasten and tell you that he dying to the reluctancy of all that knew him on the 19. Dec. according to the account followed at Ypre in 1634. aged 58 years one month and 19 days was buried in his own Cathedral Some years before his Death he came into England purposely to resign up his Heirship of his Estate at Sherburn before-mentioned and elsewhere which belonged to the noble Family of the Chamberlains sometimes Barons of Tanquervil in Normandy he being the first and true Heir And this he did for Religion sake and purposely to avoid the incumbrances of earthly things See more of him in Athenae Belgicae c. written by Franc. Sweertius printed at Antwerp 1628. where you will find several things that he had written and published ROBERT GWINN a Welsh Man born took one degree in Arts 1568. and in 1571. leaving the University went with Thom. Crowther another Batchelaur to Doway where being admitted into the English College made very great progress in Divinity Afterwards Gwinn returning into England and settling in Wales in the condition of a Secular Priest did write several Pious Works in the Welsh Tongue as Anton. Possivinus tells us but the Titles of them he omits and also translated from the English into the Welsh Language A Christian Directory or Exercise guiding Men to Eternal Salvation commonly called the Resolution Written by Rob. Persons the Jesuit which Translation was much used and valued and so consequently did a great deal of good among the Welsh People See more in Jo. Davies under the year 1634. WALTER BALEY or Bailey Son of Henry Baley of Warnwell in Dorsetshire was born at Portsham in that County educated in Wykchams School 〈◊〉 Win chester admitted perpetual fellow of New Colledge after he had served two years of probation an 1550 tok the degrees in Arts entred upon the Physick line was admitied to practice that faculty while he was Proctor of the University in the year 1558 and about that time was made Prebendary of Dultingcote alias Dulcot c. in the Church of Wells which he resign'd in 1579. In 1561 he was made the Queens Professor of Physick in this University proceeded in that faculty two years after and at length became Physician to Qu. Elizabeth and much resorted to for his practice He hath written A discourse of three kinds of Pepper in
Onuphrius in Rome I have more than twice sent to that place for the day and year of his death with a copy of his Epitaph but as yet I have received no answer Therefore take this Epitâ—â— made for him which I have met with elsewhere Inveni portum spes fortuna valete Nil mihi vobiscum ludite nunc alios HENRY SALESBURY born of and descended from a right ancient family of his name living in Denbigbshire became a commoner of S. Albans hall in 1581 aged 20 years took one degree in Arts and no more in this University entred on the Physick line practiced afterwards in his own country and was esteemed by the learned not only an eminent Physician but a curious Critick especially as to matters relating to the Antiquities and Language of his country He lâ—th written Dictionarium Britannicum Which being left 〈◊〉 in MS came into the hands of Job Davies who made great use of it when he was 〈◊〉 his Dictionary in British and Lat. and in Lat. and British What our author Salesbury hath written besides or when he died I find not nor any thing else of him only that he was of the same family with and very nearly related to Will. Salesbury whom I have mentioned under the year 1567 from whose endeavours this H. Salesbury found divers materials when he was composing his Dictionary before-mentioned and perhaps had received instruction from his own Person in matters relating to British affairs ISAAC COLFE fourth Son of Amandus Colfe alias Coult of Callis in France and of the City of Canterbury in England was born in Kent particulary as I suppose in the said City become a Commoner of Broadgates Hall in the beginning of the year 1576. took the Degrees in Arts Holy Orders and was afterwards beneficed if not dignified in his own Country His Works are Sermon 17. Nov. 1587. on Psal 118. 22. to the end of 26. Lond. in oct A Comfortable Treatise of the Temptation of Christ Lond. 1592. in oct with other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen His eldest Brother Rich. Colfe was born at Callis educated in Ch. Ch. in this University and was afterwards Doctor of Divinity as I shall elsewhere tell you He left behind him several Sons among whom were Isaac of Ch. Ch. and Jacob of All Souls Col. JOHN PENRY or ap Henry that is the Son of Henry better known by the Name of Martin Marprelate or Marpriest as having been a Plague to the Bishops and Ministers of his time than by his own was born and bred as he used to say in the Mountains of Wales particularly as others say in the County of Brecknock became a Sub-sizer of Peter House in Cambridge about 1578. At which time as one a saith he was as arrant a Papist as ever came out of Wales and that he would have run a false Gallop over his Beads with any Man in England and help the Priest for a shift to say Mass at midnight c. In 1583. or thereabouts he took a Degree in Arts in that University and afterwards did perform some or most of the Exercise requisite for Master but leaving the said University abruptly for what cause I know not he retired to Oxon and getting himself to be entred a Commoner of St. Alban's Hall notwithstanding the vigour of Puritanism did then Reign among the Heads of the University which makes me to think that Penry was not then inclined to Popery he continued there for some time finished the remaining part of his Exercise and in the beginning of July 1586. he was licensed to proceed in Arts as a Member of the said Hall and on the eleventh of the said Month compleated that Degree in an Act celebrated in the Church of St. Mary About that time he took Holy Orders did Preach in Oxon and afterwards in Cambridge and was esteemed by many a tolerable Scholar an edifying Preacher and a good Man but being a Person full of Welsh Blood of a hot and restless Head did upon some discontent change the course of his Life and became a most notorious Anabaptist of which Party he was in his time the Corâ—pâ—â—â—us and in some sort a Brownist and the most bitter Enemy to the Church of England as any that appeared in the long Reign of Q. Elizabeth He hath written A view of some part of such Publick Wants and Disorders as are in the Service of God within her Majesty's Country of Wales with an Humble Petition to the High Court of Parliament for their speedy redress Printed 1588. in oct Therein is shewed not only the necessity of Reforming the State of Religion among that People but also the only way in regard of substance to bring that Reformation to pass A defence of that which hath been written in the questions of the ignorant Ministry and the communicating with them Printed 1588. in oct written against Rob. Some D. D. of Cambridge who published the same year A Treatise deciding several questions concerning the Ministry Sacrament and Church Lond. in qu. As also A confutation of some of Mr. Penry's Errours About that time J. G. of Oxon published a Book entit Mr. Some laid open in his Colours wherein the indifferent Reader may easily see how wretchedly and loosly he hath handled the Cause against Mr. Penry Printed in oct Penry hath also written Exhortation unto the Governours and People of her Majesty's Country of Wales to labour earnestly to have the Preaching of the Gospel planted among them Printed 1588. in oct Theses Martinianae i. e. certain demonstrative conclusions set down and collected by Martin Marprelate the Great serving as a manifest and sufficient confutation of all that ever the College of Catercaps with their whole Band of Clergy-Priests have or can bring for the defence of their ambitious and Antichristian relacy Published by Martin Junior 1589. in oct and dedicated to John Kankerbury that is John Archbishop of Canterbury At the end of which Book Martin Junior hath an Epilogue The just censure and reproof of Mart. Marprelate to Martin Junior Printed with the former Protestation of Mart Marprelate Wherein notwithstanding the surprising of the Printer he maketh it known unto the World that he feareth neither proud Priest Antichristian Pope Tyrannous Prelate nor godless Catercap c. Printed 1589. in 120. by stealth and very full of faults Dialogue wherein is plainly laid open the tyrannical dealings of the Lords Bishops against God's Children Printed 1589. in qu. Therein are several reflecting stories on Dr. Martin Culpeper Warden of New College and on Dr. Nich. Bond of Magd. College and on his excellent dancing This scandalous Dialogue which was reprinted when the Long-Parliament began An. 1640. purposely to spite Archbishop Laud and the Bishops was with other like stuff of the said Mart. Marprelate answered by T. C. that is Thom. Cooper in his Admonition to the People of England c. See more in Tho. Cooper under
of England to Geneva in the beginning of Q. Maries reign and there joined with Joh. Knox as quiet a spirit as himself that was the firebrand of his country of Scotland c. The truth is Goodman was a most violent Nonconformist and for rigidness in opinion he went beyond his friend Calvin who remembers and mentions him in his Epistles 1561. There was no man more ready than he as Knox was for Scotland to oppose in the beginning of Q. Eliz. the settlement of the Ch. of England according to the way used in the time of K. Ed. 6. What his preferments were when the said Queen came to the crown and where if any they were unless at Chester or in the county I know not Sure I am that when Sir Hen. Sydney was Deputy of Ireland and had much to do with the popish rebels there Goodman shewed his faithful diligence in that service His works are these How superiour powers ought to be obey'd of their subjects and wherein they may be lawfully by Gods word be disobey'd and resisted Genev. 1558. in tw c. W. Whittyngham hath a preface to it The first blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women Printed beyond Sea 1558. oct wherein Qu. Mary is called a wicked woman traitress bastard Proserpine c. But most of his doctrines in the said two books being destructive to the sacred persons of princes and their state and government were not only condemned by the Episcopal Clergy of England in the time of Q. Elizab. and after but also by the judgment and decree of the University of Oxon past in their convocation held 21. Jul. 1683. Nay The first blast of the trumpet c. was esteemed by all especially the R. Catholicks a wicked seditious and base book and not fit to be taken into the hands of a Christian and the rather for this reason because as a Poet of that time saith No Queen in her Kingdom can or ought to sit fast If Knocks or Goodmans books blow any true blast He hath also written A commentary on Amos This I have not yet seen Nor can I say any thing else of him only that when he laid on his Death-bed at Chester year 1602 in sixteen hundred and two he was visited by Mr. Jam. Vsher afterwards Archb. of Armagh at what time he came from Ireland into England to buy books for Dublin Library several of whose stories he heard with great delight which he would afterwards when an ancient man repeat to his friends He the said Goodman died that year and was as I have been informed by some of his relations buried in the Church of St. Werberg in Chester His sometimes friend and crony Job Parkhurst hath an Epigram upon him which you may take instead of an Epitaph Nemo bonus Servator ait sed solus Olympum Qui regit is bonus est Gudmane nemo bonus Yet an English Presbyterian who saith that Goodman was a learned Scotch Divine was according to his name good and holy WILLIAM HARRYS became Fellow of Lincoln Coll. about 1567. being then Bach. of Arts Afterwards taking the degree of Master he left the Coll. his friends religion and the little all he had and went to the English College then newly erected at Doway where spending divers years in the study of Theology was at length made a Priest Afterwards returning to his native country to serve the afflicted Catholicks and gain Proselytes lived there several years and composed a large volume intit The Theatre or Mirrour of the most true and ancient Church of Great Britaine founded by Apostolical men and propagated from generation to generation even to our time by most holy Doctors and Catholicks in 10 books What else he wrote I find not not any thing material of him besides year 1602 only that he died in England in sixteen hundred and two Contemporary with him was Thomas Marshall Bach. of Arts 1562. and about that time Fellow of the said college but soon after leaving his Fellowship he went to Lovaine where he entred into the Society of Jesus Afterwards he went to Doway where he spent 9 years in reading and explaining Philosophy and at length became Confessor to the English coll at Rome where he died in 1589. leaving behind him the character of a learned person HAYWORD TOWNSHEND eldest Son of Sir Hen. Townshend Knight Justice of Chester by Susan his first Wife daughter of Sir Rowland Hayward of London Knight was a Shropshire man born became a Gentleman Commoner of St. Maries Hall about the beginning of the year 1590. took one degree in Arts being about that time a Student in the Municipal Law in Lincolns-Inn and was afterwards a Barrester In 1601. he was elected a Burgess for Bishops Castle in his own country to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster 27. Oct. the same year where shewing himself an observing man made an Historical collection of the proceedings therein to which adding other collections for three Parliaments preceeding viz. 1. For that which began 4. Feb. 1588. 2. For that which began 19. Feb. 1592. and thirdly for that which commenc'd 9. Feb. 1597. he made a compleat collection in folio At length when the press was open and the author had been dead many years his labours were published under this title Historical collections or an exact account of the proceedings of the four last Parliaments of Q. Elizabeth wherein is contained the compleat Journals both of Lords and Commons taken from the original records of their Houses As also the more particular behaviours of the worthy Members during all the last notable sessions c. Lond. 1680. fol. In the title of which book the publisher hath set down Heywood instead of Hayward Townshend whose time of death tho unknown to me yet sure I am that he died without Issue some years before 1623. See more in Will. Monson under the year 1606. In 1681. was published in octavo a book intit The connexion being choice collections of some remarkable passages in K. James his reign c. which may supply the vacancy between Townshend and Rushworths collections but who the author of it was I cannot tell 'T is a trite thing WILLIAM FULBECK a younger Son if I mistake not of Thom. Fulbeck who died in his Mayoralty of the City of Lincoln 1566. was born in that City particularly as it seems in the parish of St. Benedict wherein his Father lived and died became a commoner of St. Albans Hall in 1577. aged 17. admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 23. January 1579. took the degree of Bach. of Arts two years after and then translated himself to Glocester Hall Where continuing a severe Student till he had taken the degree of M. of Arts and had compleated it by standing in the Act 1584. he went to Greys-Inn in Holbourn near to London where he addressed himself to the study of the Municipal Laws and as 't is said had
might be proposed in the first Parliament and National Council of our Country after God of his mercy shall restore it to the Catholick Faith for the better establishment and preservation of the said Religion Lond. 1690. oct To which the said Edw. Gee hath put before it an Introduction and added some Animadversions Controversiae nostri temporis in Epitomen redactae MS. in Baliol coll Library written with the authors own hand In the front of which is this written Compilator hujusce Epitomes est Robertus Personius ut patet ex Johanne Rainoldâ— in censura librorum Apochryphorum praelectione secunda pag. 22. ex editione Hieronimi Galleri in nobili Openhemio He also translated from English into the Spanish tongue A relation of certain Martyrs in England Madrid 1590. oct At length after he had spent his life in continual agitation for the cause gave up the ghost at Rome 15 Ap. according to the accompt there followed which is the fifth day of the same month with us in sixteen hundred and ten and was buried in the Church or Chappel belonging to the English coll year 1610 there Soon after was a monument put over his Grave with a large inscription thereon which for brevity sake I shall now pass by In the Rectorship of the said English coll succeeded Tho. Owen a Welsh-man RICHARD KNOLLES of the same family with those of his name living at Cold-Ashby in Northamptonshire made his first entry into this University in 1560. or thereabouts took one degree in Arts four years after and then was elected Fellow of Lincoln college where after he had proceeded in that faculty did purpose to perform if God granted him life something that might be profitable to the Christian Commonwealth as in time God should give him means and occasions In the mean while Sir Peter Manwood of S. Stephens near to Canterbury Knight of the Bath minding to be a favourer of his studies called him from the University and was by 〈◊〉 preferred to be Master of the Free-School at Sandwich in Kent where being settled he did much good in his Profession and sent many Young men to the Universities And tho he was there in a world of troubles and cares and in a place that afforded no means of comfort to proceed in great works yet he performed much for the benefit of History at his vacant hours upon the desire of the said Sir Peter as it doth appear by these his works following The history of the Turks Lond. 1610. c. fol. which book he composed in about 12 years time And tho it all goes under his name yet some there be that think he was not the sole author of it because therein are found divers translations of Arabick Histories in which Language he was not at all seen as some that knew him have averr'd In other editions of this book for there have been at least five it beareth this title The general History of the Turks from the first beginning of that Nation to the rising of the Ottomaâ— Family c. It hath been continued from Knolles's death by several hands and one continuation was made from the year 1628. to the end of the year 1637. collected out of the dispatches of Sir Pet. Wyche Kt. Embass at â—onstantinople and others by Tho. Nabbes a writer for the most part comical to the English Stage in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. A continuation of the Turkish Hist from 1623. to 1677. was made by Paul Rycaut Esq late Consul at Smyrna Lond. 1679. The Lives and Conquests of the Ottoman Kings and Emperours to the year 1610. Lond. 1621. Continued from that time 1610. to 1621. by another hand A brief discourse of the greatness of the Turkish Empire and where the greatest strength thereof consisteth c. Grammat Latine Graecae Hebr. compendium cum radicibus Lond. in oct He also translated from the French and Lat. copies into English The six books of a Common-wealth Lond. 1606. fol. written by Joh. Bodin a famous Lawyer At length this our author Knolles dying at Sandwich before he had quite attained to the age of Man in sixteen hundred and ten year 1610 was buried in St. Maries Church there on the second of July the same year leaving behind him the character of an industrious learned and religious person FRANCIS HASTINGS fifth Son of Francis Earl of Huntingdon was born as it seems in Leicestershire where his Father mostly lived educated in Madg. coll under the tuition of Dr. Laur. Humphrey in the beginning of Q. Elizabeth's Reign from whom sucking in many Calvinistical Opinions proved when he was ripe in years a severe Puritan and Predestinatian as his elder Brother George was who was trained up at Geneva under Theod. Beza and a most zealous Man for the reformed Religion Two other Brothers also were as zealous for the Church of Rome yet all for a time lived friendly together Afterwards our author Francis was Knighted by Q. Elizabeth and being several times chosen a Parliament-man in her Reign became a frequent Speaker in them and at first a violent Man against the Papists tho afterwards a favourer especially at that time when he and Sir Rich. Knightly of Northamptonshire presented a Petition to the Parliament for favour or a toleration to be given to them Whereby it appeared then to the observer that the Putitan could joyn with the Papist against the Church of England He was a learned Gentleman well read in authors especially in those relating to the controversies between the Protestants and Papists as it appears by his works the titles of which follow The Watchword to all true-hearted English-men Lond. 1598. oct Which title did imitate that belonging to a book printed at Lond. in qu. an 1584. running thus A Watchword to England to beware of Traytors and treacherous practices c. But the Watchword of Sir F. Hastings being answered by Nic. Doleman alias Rob. Persons in his Temperate Wardword our author came out with An aâ—â—logy or defence of the Watchword against the virulent and seditious Wardword published by an English Spaniard under the title of N. D. Lond. 1600 qu. In which year came out also another book in defence of Hastings intit A brief reply to a certain odious and scandalous Libel lately published by a seditious Jesuit calling himself N. D. c. entit A temperate Wardword Printed at Lond. in qu. but who the author of it was I know not Another also who writes himself O. E. published a second reply the same year against the said Temperate Wardword Against which or another book relating to the said controversie came out A confutation of a vaunting challenge made by O. E. unto N. D. Pr. 1603. in oct written by W. R. a Rom. Catholick Our author Sir Francis also wrote The Wastword c. Pr. at Lond. 1601. oct Answer'd by Persons's book called The Warnword an 1602. Meditations Printed several times in 16o. Several Speeches in Parliament Some of which are
second a Lyon passant or all within a bordure Ermine The creast is A Stork or Crane standing resting its right foot on the top of an hour-glass With this Motto under allâ— Plus vigila Allowed to our author Count Rich. Whyte with two Dragons for the Supporters by Sir Will. Dethick Garter principal King of Arms in allusion to the Arms of his Kinsman Dr. John Whyte sometimes Bishop of Winton whose Arms are quite different from those of his Brother Sir Joh. Whyte Lord Mayor of London an 1563. Explicatio brevis privilegiorum juris consuetudinis circa ven sacramentum Eucharistiae Duac 1609. oct De reliquiis veneratione sanctorum Duac 1609. and other things as you may elsewhere see At length this learned person dying at Doway in sixteen hundred and twelve or thereabouts was buried in the Parish Church of S. James there Contemporary with him in New coll was one Will. Pomerell Chaplain of that house who taking the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1557. went afterwards to his native Country of Ireland and became benefited in Drogheda From thence he went to Lovaine where by continual hearing of Lectures and Disputations more than by private study he obtained great knowledge in Divinity gaining thereby as 't was usually said of him all his learning bâ— hearsay He died at Lovaine in 1573. being then Bach. of Div. NICHOLAS FITZHERBERT second Son of John Fitzherbert second Son of Sir Anth. Fitzherbert Knight the great Lawyer Son of Ralph Fitzherbert of Norbury in Derbyshire Esq was a Student in Exeter coll and exhibited to by Sir Will. Petre about 1568. but what continuance he made there I know not Sure 't is that his bare name stands in the Register called Matricula under the title of Coll. Exon in 1571. and 72. he being then the Senior Under-graduat of that College About that time he left his native Country Parents and Patrimony for Religion sake and went beyond the Seas as a voluntary Exile At first he setled at Bononia in Italy purposely to obtain the knowledge of the Civil Law and was living there in 1580. Not long after he went to Rome took up his station there and in the year 1587. began to live in the Court of Will. Alan the Cardinal of England whose person and vertues he much adored and continued with him till the time of his death being then accounted eminent for his knowledge in both the Laws and for humane literature His works are Oxoniensis in Anglia Academiae descriptio Rom. 1602. in 3 sh and a half in oct De antiquitate continuatione Catholicae Religionis in Anglia Rom. 1608. in oct Vita Cardinalis Alani Epitome He also translated from the Italian into the Latin tongue Joh. Casa Galateus de moribus Rom. 1595. He was drowned in a journey taken from Rome in sixteen hundred and twelve year 1612 but where or in what Church buried I know not nor what his employment was after the death of the said Cardinal notwithstanding I have sent more than once to the English coll at Rome for resolution but have received no answer GEORGE BLACKWELL a Middlesex Man born was admitted Scholar of Trinity coll at 17 years of age 27. May 1562. Probationer in 65. being then Bach. of Arts perpetual Fellow the year following and Master of his Faculty in 67. But his mind being more addicted to the Catholick than Reformed Religion he left his Fellowship and retired to Gloucester hall for a time where he was held in good repute by Edm. Rainolds and Th. Allen the two learned Seniors Afterwards going beyond the Seas where he spent some time in one of the English Seminaries newly erected to receive exil'd Catholicks of the English Nation was at length in the year 1598. constituted by Henry Cardinal Cajetane Protector of the English Nation at Rome with leave first obtained from P. Clem. 8. the Superiour of the of the English Clergy with the Power and Name of Archpriest of England and by the said Pope made Notary of the Apostolick Seat This matter being taken very ill by the Ecclesiastical Papists of our Nation and the rather for this reason that Blackwell was altogether at the beck of Henr. Garnet Provincial of the Jesuits of England they fell together by the Ears in their own Country in a most grievous manner For the Jesuits against the Secular Priests fought continually with sharp pens poisoned tongues and contumelious books insomuch that they detracted in an high degree from Blackwells authority Hereupon he degraded them of their Faculties so that afterwards they appealing to the Pope of Rome he caused them in a book to be declared Schismaticks and Hereticks This aspersion they soon wiped off having the censure of the University of Paris approving the same which was answered by Blackwell as I shall tell you anon The office of Archpriest he kept till 1607. at which time George Birket a learned Priest succeeded And the reason of the change was because our author having been taken near Clerkenwell by London 24. June the same year was committed first to the Gatehouse in Westminster and afterwards to the Clink in Southwork and consequently deprived of liberty required to act in his Office Soon after upon his taking the oath of Allegiance he was freed from the Clink and set at liberty Concerning which matter there was a book published intit The examination of George Blackwell upon occasion of his answering a Letter sent by Cardinal Bellarmine who blamed him for taking the oath of Allegiance Lond. 1607. qu. As for those things which were written by our author Blackwell who was by those of his perswasion and others too accounted a learned and pious Man and a good Preacher the titles of them follow Letter to Card. Cajetane in commendation of the English Jesuits Written 1596. Answers upon sundry Examinations while he was a Prisoner Lond. 1607. qu. Approbation of the Oath of Allegiance Printed with the Answers upon c. Letters to the Romish Priests touching the lawfulness of taking the Oath of Allegiance Another to the same purpose Epistolae ad Anglos Pontificios Lond. 1609. qu. Epistolae ad Rob. Card. Bellarminum See more in the third tome of the works of Melch. Goldasti Haiminsfeldii from pag. 565. to 605. Answer to the Censure of Paris in suspending the Secular Priests obedience to his authority dat 29. May 1600. Replyed upon by Joh. Dorel or Darrel Dean of Agen the same year See more in a book intit Relation of a Faction begun at Wisbich in 1595. c. Printed 1601. in qu. p. 81. Afterwards was a book printed intit In Geor. Blackvellum quaestio bipartita written by Joh. Milson Lond. 1609. but whether it relates to the said controversie I cannot tell for I have not yet seen it A Treatise against Lying and fraudulent Dissimulation MS. among those given to Bodies Lib. by Archb. Laud 40. E. 45. At the end of which is the approbation of the
fere plusquam humanâ perdius pernox he made it his chief endeavours tho troubled with the cumbrances of Marriage to improve it with riches and literature For the effecting of the last he always made choice of the best Scholars at the usual elections of Bach. Fellows In the first that he made after he was Warden which consisted but of four persons were Hen. Cuffe and Franc. Mason elected both noted for their learning tho the first was unfortunate In the last about three years before his death which consisted of six four of them whereof two were afterwards Bishops were esteemed eminent namely Dr. Reynolds of Norwych Dr. Earl of Salisbury John Doughty and Alex. Fisher the last of which tho he hath published nothing yet in some respects he was as able as any of the rest so to do had not a weak and timerous Spirit stood in his way Our author Savile also took as much care as he could to place noted men in Eaton college among whom were Tho. Allen Joh. Hales Tho. Savile and Jonas Mountague all of Mert. coll the last of which whom he made Usher of the School there helped him as Allen and Hales did in the edition of St. Chrysostome as I shall tell you elsewhere When K. Jam. 1. came to the Crown he had a great respect for Mr. Savile and his learning and as I have heard our Ancients say he would have advanced him to a higher place either in Church or State but he refused it and only accepted of the Honour of Knighthood from him at Windsore 21. Sept. 1604. Much about which time Henry his only Son and Heir dying and no hopes left of propagating his Name and of setling a Family he bestowed much of his wealth in publishing books and in founding two Lectures in this University which will make his memory honourable not only among the learned but the righteous for ever even till the general conflagration shall consume all books and learning Many are the Encomiums given of him by divers authors which if I should enumerate may make a Manual In one place he is stiled Musarum Patronus Mecoenas literarum fortunarumque Mertonensium verè Pater c. In another he is characterized by a zealous Rom. Cath. who seldom or never speaks well of a Protestant or at least by Dr. W. Bishop the publisher of his book to be Vir Graecè Latinè perinde doctus venerandae Antiquitatis ut videtur tam exquisitus indagator tam ingenuus liberalis editor To pass by the noble and generous characters given of him by Isaac Casaubon Joh. Boysius Josias Mercerus Marc. Meibomius Jos Scaliger and others among whom must not be forgotten the learned Rich. Mountague who stiles him The Magazine of all Learning I shall proceed to make mention of those things that he hath published and written which are these following Learned notes on and a translation into English of Corn. Tacitus his 1 End of Nero and beginning of Galba 2 Four books of Histories 3 Life of Agricola Lond. 1581. 98. c. fol. A rare translation it is and the work of a very great Master indeed both in our tongue and that story For if we consider the difficulty of the original and the age wherein the Translator lived is both for the exactness of the version and the chastity of the language one of the most accurate and perfect translations that ever were made into English The said notes were put into Latin by Is Gruter and printed at Amsterdam 1649. in tw A view of certain Military Matters or Commentaries concerning Roman Warfare Lond. 1598. c. fol. Put into Lat. by Marq. Fraherus printed at Heidleburg 1601. in oct and at Amsterd by Is Gruter 1649. in tw Fasti Regum Episcoporum Angliae usque ad Willielmum Seniorem These Fasti are at the end of the writers which Sir Hen. Savile published intit Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores post Bedam praecipui c. viz. Gul. Malmsburiensis Hen. Huntingdon Rog. Hoveden c. Lond. 1596. fol. The best copies of which authors he collected viewed reviewed and corrected In his Epist dedic before which made to Q. Elizab. speaking of the History of England delivereth these matters after he had condemned Pol. Virgil Neostri ex face plobis Historici c. Our Historians being of the drâ—gs of the common People while they have endeavoured to adorn the Majesty of so great a work have stained and defiled it with most fusty fooleries Whereby tho I wot not by what hard fortune of this Island it is came to pass that your Ancesters most gracious Queen most puissant Princes who embracing a great part of this our World within their Empire did easily overgo all the Kings of their time in the Glory of great atchievements now destitute of as it were the light of brave Wits do lie unknown and unregarded c. These words being uttered by a Gent. excellently learned to a Soveraign Queen excellently understanding and in print were then understood and wish'd for by Historians and curious Men to have this meaning That the Majesty of handling our History might once equal the Majesty of the argument This was their opinion and the publisher Great Savile gave hopes to them that he should be the Man that would do it All the learned of England were erected and full of expectation but at length were grieved to find it vain Somewhat notwithstanding he is said to have attempted in that argument by making searches in the Tower of London for furniture out of the Records but if he did any such thing whether impatient of the harsh and dusty rudeness of the subject or despairing that he could deal so truly as the honour and splendour of his name and as the nature of the work required he desisted converting all his cares to the edition of St. Chrysostome in Greek Thus was he carried away by speculation of things Divine as it were in a Chariot of fire from this other immortal office to his native Country He also carefully collected the best copies of books written by St. Chrysostome from various parts of the World and employed learned men to transcribe and make annotations on them Which being done he printed them at his own charge in a most beautiful edition bearing this title S. Johannis Chrysostomi opera Gracè octo voluminibus Printed in Eaton coll 1613. fol. On several parts of which he put learned notes besides what the profound Joh. Boyse Andr. Downes Tho. Allen c. had done The whole charge of which edition and for the payment of certain Scholars employed beyond the Seas for the obtaining of the best Exemplars of that author cost him more than 8000 l. But the copy as soon as 't was finish'd coming into the hands of a learned French Jesuit named Fronto Ducaeus of Bordeaux he mostly translated it into Latin Which being so done he printed it in Gr.
several Faculties that he was esteemed by some a living Library He was also indefatigable in reading old MSS. and subtle in finding out the forgeries in them He and Allen of Glouc. hall were esteemed as most knowing in the ancient Statutes and Customs of this University and therefore their helps in the several attempts made of framing an intire and compleat body of them were often desired He was a Member of the Convocation held with the Parliament at Oxon 1. Car. 1. wherein he made a motion that some persons might be commissioned to peruse the Manuscript Fathers in all publick and private English Libraries that thereby the forgeries of Forreign Popish editions might be detected but what the event of it was I know not His designs were always for the publick benefit of learning and English Church which being well known to his learned friend Will. Camden he therefore saith thus of him He is a learned man and a true lover of books wholly dedicated to learning who is now laboriously searching the Libraries of England and purposeth that for the publick good which will be to the great benefit of Students Our author Dr. James saith also of himself thus in 1624. that if Cambridge will set up and set forward the like that is to collate and examine ancient MSS. as he hath done and will do I dare undertake more good to be done for the profit of learning and true Religion than by building ten Colleges I have of late given my self to the reading only of MSS. and in them I find so many and so pregnant testimonies either fully for our Religion or against the Papists that it is to be wondred at that the Religion of Papists then and now do not agree c. He also farther tells us that not only the Rabbins but the Thalmud in six volumes at Rome hath felt the smart of the popish indices would God we were but half as diligent to restore as they abolish and put out the truth I have restored 300 citations and rescued them from corruption in thirty quier of paper with sundry other projects of mine which if they miscarry not for want of maintenance it would deserve a Princes purse If I was in Germany the States would defray all my charges cannot our estates supply what is wanting If every Churchman that hath an 100. l. per an and upward will lay down but a shilling for every hundred towards these publick works I will undertake the reprinting of the Fathers and setting forth five or six volumes of Orthodox writers comparing of books printed with printed or written collating of popish translations in Greek and generally whosoever shall concern books or the purity of them I will take upon me to be Magister S. Palatii in England if I should be lawfully thereunto required c. As for his works that are printed they are these Ecloga Oxonio-Cantabrigiensis lib. 2. Lond. 1600. qu. This Ecloga doth contain a Catalogue of all the MSS in each college Library in the University of Oxon but not of those in the publick and in each college Library in Cambridge and in that of the publick there In the making of which Catalogue he had liberty given to him by each coll in Oxon. to peruse their MSS. and from that Society which he perceived was careless of them he borrow'd and took away what he pleased and put them forthwith into the Publick Library Several such MSS were taken from Ball. coll and some from Merton and do yet bear in their respective fronts the names of the donours of them to those Houses This Ecloga is very useful for curious Scholars and is much commended by Joseph Scaliger in an Epistle to Rich. Thompson as I have told you elsewhere Cyprianus redivivus hoc est elenchus eorum quae in opusculo Cypriani de unitate ecclesiae sunt vel addita vel detracta vel lapsu Typographi vel alio quovis modo supposita c. Printed with the Ecloga Spicilegium D. Augustini hoc est libri de fide ad Pet. Diaconum cum antiquiss duob MSS. postremis ac ultimis editionibus excusis tam Basiliensi quam Parisiensi diligens collatio ac castigatio c. Pr. with the Ecloga Bellum paepale seu concordia discors Sixti v. Clementis viii circa Hieronymianum editionem Lond. 1600. qu. there again 1678. oct Catalogus Librorum in Bib. Bodleiana Oxon. 1605. in a large oct or rather a small qu. printed again with many additions in a thick qu. 1620. To which was added an Appendix 1635. 6. In this Catalogue is remitted the Cat. of all such MSS. that were then in the Bod. Library Concordantiae Sanctorum patrum i. e. vera pia libri Canticorum per Patres universos tam Graecos quam Latinos expositio c. Oxon. 1607. qu. Apology for Joh. Wicliff shewing his conformity with the now Church of England c. Oxon. 1608. qu. Written in answer to the slanderous objections urged against by Father Parsons the Apologist and others Life of Joh. Wicliff Printed with the Apology Treatise of the corruption of the Scripture Councells and Fathers by the Church of Rome Lond. 1611. qu. lb. 1688. oct Sufficient answer unto Jam. Gretser and Ant. Possevine Jesuits and the unknown author of the grounds of the Old Religion and the New Printed with the Treatise of the Corruption c. The Jesuits Downfall threatned against them by the Secular Priests for their wicked Lives accursed Manners heretical doctrine and more than Machiavillian Policy Oxon. 1612. qu. Life of Father Parsons an English Jesuit Printed at the end of the former book Index generalis sanctorum patrum ad fingulos versus cap. 5. secundum Mathaeum c. Lond. 1624. oct Notae ad Georgium Wicelium de methodo concordiae Ecclesiasticae cum Catologo authorum qui scripserunt contra squalores Ecclesiae Romanae Lond. 1625. oct Vindiciae Gregorianae c. Genev. 1625. qu. Manuduction or Introduction unto Divinity containing a confutation of Papists by Papists throughout the important articles of our Religion c. Oxon. 1625. qu. His humble and earnest request to the Church of England for and in the behalf of books touching Religion Pr. in one sh in oct 1625. Explanation or enlarging of the ten articles in his supplication lately exhibited to the Clergy of England for the restoring to integrity authors corrupted by Papists Ox. 1625. qu. Specimen corruptelarum Pontificiarum in Cypriano Ambrosio Gregorio M. authore operis imperfecti in jure canonico Lond. 1626. qu. Index Librorum prohibitorum a Pontificiis Oxon. 1627. oct Admonitio ad Theologos Protestantes de libris Pontificiorum caute legendis MS. Enchiridion Theologicum MS. Liber de suspicionibus conjecturis MS. These 3. MSS. I saw formerly in Lambeth Library under D. 1. 2 3. but whether printed I know not perhaps the Enchiridion is He also translated from French into English The moral
University was resolved when in authority to reform them But his time being short only for an year and his Successor not of the same mind little or nothing could be done However John Sprint of his own house he called into question for uttering certain points of doctrine against the ceremonies and discipline then established according to Law which was an usual thing for many puritanical and discontented Divines in the Univ. to bark at and after him Rob. Troutbeck of Qu. college nay the most Calvinistical Provost thereof Hen. Airay who did not only maintain in their Preachings what Sprint had said and done but also spoke many things to the disgrace of the Vicechancellour Among which was that he had to no other end and purpose got the degrees of Bach. and Doct. of Divinity without exercise done for them only but that he might sooner obtain the Vicechancellourship and consequently shew his authority in unjust proceedings c. From that time there were continual broils during his government which being too many now to enumerate and partly mention'd elsewhere I shall forbear to treat any farther of them Afterwards our author Howson was made Rector of Brightwell near to Watlington in Oxfordshire Fellow of Chelsey coll and at length Bishop of Oxon. To which See being elected 12. Sept. 1618. was consecrated at Lambeth with Searchfield B. of Bristow and Bridgman of Chester on the 9. of May following In 1628. Sept. 18. he was translated to the See of Durham in the place of Dr. G. Mountaigne translated to York where he remained to his dying day having always before been accounted a grave and learned man and a true Son of the Church of England His works are Several Sermons as 1 Sermons Preached at S. Pauls Cross 4. Dec. 1597 on Matth. 21. 12 13. wherein is discoursed that all buying and selling spiritual promotion is unlawful Lond. 1597. qu. 2 Second Serm. Pr. at S. Pauls Cross 21. May 1598. on Matth. 21. 12 13. concluding the former Sermon Lond. 1598. qu. 3 Sermon at S. Maries in Oxon 17. Nov. 1602. in defence of the Festivities of the Church and namely that of her Maj. Coronation on Psal. 118. 24. Oxon. 1603. second edit qu. Vxore dimissâ propter fornicationem aliam non licet superinducere Thesis tertia proposita disputata in Vesperiis Oxon. Oxon. 1602. oct and 1606. qu. The defence of which Thesis see in Rob. Burhill under the year 1641. Certain Sermons made in Oxon an 1616 wherein is proved that S. Peter had no Monarchical Power over the rest of the Apostles against Bellarmine Saunders Stapleton and the rest of that company Lond. 1622. qu. They are four in number and all on Luke 12. 41 42. c. commanded to be published by K. James to clear the aspersion laid upon him of favouring Popery which having not been yet replyed upon by any of the Rom. Cath. party have rendred their author famous to posterity He yielded up his last breath on the sixth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred thirty and one aged 75. or thereabouts and was buried in the Cath. Church of S. Paul within the City of London leaving then behind him the character of a very learned man and one plentifully endowed with all those vertues which were most proper for a Bishop The Reader is to know that there was one John Howesoun who wrote A short exposition of the 20. and 21. verses of the third chapter of the first Epistle of St. John containing a profitable discourse of Conscience Edinb 1600. oct but him I take to be a Scot and to have no relation to Joh. Howson before-mentioned DUDLEY CARLETON Son of Anth. Carleton of Baldwin Brightwell near Watlington in Oxfordshire Esq was born there 10. March 1573. became a Student of Ch. Ch. under the tuition of Mr. afterwards Dr. John King an 1591. or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1600. being then returned from his travels Afterwards he went in the quality of a Secretary to Sir Ralph Winwood into the Low Countries where being very active when K. James resigned the Cautionary Towns to the States added thereby experience to his learning In 1610. June 25. he received the honour of Knighthood from K. James at Windsore who sent him Embassador Ordinary to the States of Venice where he remained five years and from thence Extraordinary to Emanuel Duke of Savoy where he continued half an year and after Ord. Embassador to the States of the Vnited Provinces where he was resident 10 years Towards the latter end of K. James he was made Vicechamberlain of the houshold which office he holding in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. his commission was renewed by that King for the latter part of that 10 years Afterwards that time being terminated he was sent Embassador Extraordinary at two several times to the most Christian K. Lewis the 13. and likewise Embassador Extraordinary to the aforesaid States of the Vnited Provinces In the 2. of K. Ch. 1. he was made Baron of Imbercourt in Surrey and the next year being accompanied by Sir Will. Segar Knight then Garter K. of Arms went into Holland and there presented the Garter to Henry Pr. of Aurange or Orange with the Ensigns of that most noble Order thereunto appertaining In the 4. Car. 1. he was created Viscount Dorchester in Oxfordshire and upon the 18. Dec. the same year he was constituted one of his Majesties Principal Secretaries of State in which office he continued to the time of his death He was a person that understood several Languages well as also the Laws conditions and manners of most States in Europe He was an exact Statesman understood the intregues of State well yet just in his dealings and beloved by most men who much missed him after his death He hath written Balance pour peser en toute equité droicture la Harangue faite n'agurees en L'assemblée des illustres puissans Seignoures Messeigneurs les Estats generaux des Provinces unies du pais bas c. Printed 1618. qu. Harangue faite au counseile de Mess rs les Estats generaux des Provinces Vnies touchant le discord les troubles del Eglise la police causes par la doctrine d'Arminius 6. Oct. 1617. stil nov Printed with the former Besides these Speeches he hath extant Various Letters in the Cabala or Scrinia sacra Lond. 1663. fol. Various Letter 's to George Duke of Bucks in Cabala or Mysteries of State Lond. 1654. qu. and lastly Several French and Latin Letters to the learned Ger. Jo. Vossius printed in Ger. Jo. Vossii Clarorum Virorum ad eum epistolae Lond. 1690. fol. published by Paulus Colomesius Besides these he hath also Several Speeches in Parliament an 1626. c. One or more of which you may see in the first vol. of Joh. Rushworths Collections p. 358. Memoires for dispatches of political affaires relating to Holland and England and 1618. with
of proceedings in matters of Justice he briefly repeated the heads of his charge to the Grand Jury in good and elegant Latin and thereby informed the Strangers and Scholars there present of the ability of the Judges and the course of proceeding in matter of Law and Justice He understood the Greek very well and the Hebrew was vers'd in the Jewish Histories and excellently knowing in the Histories of his own Country and in the Pedigrees of most persons of honour and quality in England and much conversant also in the study of Antiquity and Heraldry He was not by any exceeded in the knowledge of his own profession of the Common Law of England wherein his knowledge of the Civil Law was a help to him as his learned arguments both at the Bar and Bench have confirm'd it for a truth His works are these Reading in the Middle Temple hall In which was so much solid Law and excellent learning express'd that copies were desired and taken of it but whether printed I cannot tell Several Speeches in Parliament One of which is extant in a book intit The Soveraign's Prerogative and the Subjects Privileges discussed c. in the 3. and 4. of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1657. fol. Of the antiquity use and ceremony of lawful Combats in England MS. The beginning of which is Combats are distinguished to be lawful and unlawful c. This MS. which I saw and perused in the choice Library of MSS. of Ralph Sheldon of Beoly Esq had the name of James Whitlock set and subscrib'd to it and so consequently I took him to be the author who dying on the 22. of June in sixteen hundred thirty and two the King did lose as good a Subject his Country as good a Patriot the People as just a Judge as ever lived c. as his Son Bulstrode Whitlock tells us His body was afterward buried at Falley or Fawley not far from Great Wycomb in Bucks over which his Son before-mentioned not only erected a stately monument but also a Chappel which serves for a burial place for those descended from him ISAAC WAKE Son of Arthur Wake Rector of Billyng in Northamptonshire Master of the Hospital of St. John in Northampton and Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon third Son of John Wake Esq of the ancient and honourable Family of his name living at Sawcy Forest was born in the said County of Northampton at Billyng as it seems became a Member of this University in the beginning of the year 1593. aged 18. or thereabouts elected Probationer-Fellow of Merton coll 1598. Orator of the University 1604. being then Regent ad placitum publickly known to the K. and Court at Oxon in the year following by his Orations of a Ciceronian stile delivered before them when entertained there travelled into France and Italy 1609. and after his return was entertained in the quality of a Secretary to Sir Dudley Carleton one of the Secretaries of State and from his was advanced to the King 's service by being imployed Embassador to Venice Savoy and elsewhere The time when he went to Savoy was in the middle of Apr. 1619. being in few days before made a Knight whose Escocheon then or soon after which was hung up in all publick places where he came had this inscription written under it Sir Isaac Wake Knight Embassador Extraordinary in Savoy and Piemont Ordinary for Italy Helvetia and Rhetia select for France In 1623. he was elected Burgess by the Members of this University to serve in that Parliament which began the 19. Feb. the same year in which he was much admired for his excellent elocution I have been informed by some of the Ancients of Merton coll that this our author Wake had his Pen more at command in the Latin English and French tongue than any of his time in the University Also that his speaking was Majestick that he was better for Orations than disputing and that he employed his time more in reading political and civil matters than Philosophy or the great Faculties Further also that he was a gentile man in behaviour well spoken and therefore put upon Speeches at all Receptions and Funerals There is no doubt but that he was a man of exquisite learning strong parts of nature and of a most refined wit He hath written Rex Platonicus sive de potentiss Principis Jacobi Regis ad Academ Oxon. adventu an 1605. Oxon. 1607. qu. afterwards printed in oct Oratio funebris habita in templo B. Mariae Oxon quum maesti Oxinienses piis manibus Johannis Rainoldi parentarent Oxon. 1608. in tw c. Translated into English by Thom. Fuller in his Abel redivivus Lond. 1651. qu. Oratio funebris habita in Schola Theologica in obitum Clariss Equitis Tho. Bodley Oxon. 1613. qu. Wake 's name is not set to it only said in the title to be made by the publick Orator of the University which office Wake then injoyed 'T is reprinted in a book published by Will. Bates D. D. a Nonconformist-Minister intit Vitae selectiorum aliquot virorum qui doctrina dignitate aut pietate inclaruere Lond. 1681. in a large qu. Discourse of the 13 Cantons of the Helvetical League Lond. 1655. oct Discourse of the state of Italy as it stood about the year 1625. Printed with the former discourse Discourse upon the proceedings of the Kings of Sweden Printed also with the former These three last discourses were printed at Lond. in oct with this title put before them A threefold help to political observations I find another book going under his name that bears this title Disquisitions upon the Nativity of our Saviour Jesus Christ When printed I know not for I have not yet seen it And another called A relation of what hapned in the Dutchies of Mantoua and Montferrat from the beginning of the year 1628. unto the end of the year 1629. MS. among those given by the learned Selden's Executors to the publick Libr. at Oxon. The beginning of it is In the year of our Lord 1627. was closed with the death of Vincenzo Gonzaga c. He hath also Several Letters of State in the book called Cabala or Mysteries of State c. Lond. 1654. qu. and Several Letters in that intit Cabala or Scrinia Sacra Lond. 1663. fol. He took his last farewel of this World at Paris during his being there in the service of his Majesty Whereupon his body being embalmed was brought over into England and inter'd on the south side of the Chancel belonging to the Chappel in Dover Castle in the month of July in sixteen hundred thirty and two At which time Mr. John Reading Minister of S. Maries Church in Dover preached his Funeral Sermon wherein he took occasion to speak very honourably of the person that laid dead before him whom he knew and well remembred in the University of Oxon. THOMAS ALLEN or Alleyn the Father of all learning and vertuous industry an unfeigned lover and furtherer of
that no other Church hath any salvation in it but only so far as it concurs with the Faith of the Church of Rome My body to be buried in S. Marg. Ch. in Westminster near to the Font in the meanest manner according to the deserts of my Sins Item I give 20 s. for the painting or otherwise of the said Font. It. I give my tenement in Yale and the two tenements in Caernarvanshire Cordmaur and Tudne to the Town of Ruthyn in Denbighshire where I was born c. The rent of the tenement in Yale he bequeathed to several uses and among the rest was 20 l. to be given to some Gentleman who should desire to travel and that he together with good security should undertake within the compass of two years to live two months in Germany two months in Italy two months in France and two months in Spain and that his own kindred be chosen before others for that purpose c. The books that he designed for Chelsey college he gave to Trin. coll in Cambridge but with this condition that if Chelsey coll be ever restored the books should be restored thereunto He gave 16 l. to outed and sequestred Ministers of the Loyal Party and a 100 l. to poor distressed Church-men Rom. Catholicks according to the discretion of his Executors Gabriel Goodman and Mrs. Sib. Eglionby He desired also that his collection of notes be perused by some Scholar and if any thing should be found worthy of printing that they be published c. It must be now known that in hate and detestation of Socinianism he did in his younger years examine all the mysteries in Religion and all the miracles in Scripture how far they agreed with natural reason and wherein they transcended and thereupon did publish a book intit The fall of man or the corruption of nature proved by natural reason Lond. 1616. and 1624. qu. And then he undertook to proceed in the rest of the Mysteries Together with these he drew up an History from the beginning of the World to his time and so he ended with the Church of England as seâ—led by Laws little regarding the opinion of particular men but Statutes Acts of State Proclamations Injunctions c. In which work he was much beholding to Sir Tho. Cottons Library But these with the rest of his goods were lost and whether they were ever recovered before his death I know not He hath also written Arguments or animadversions and digressions on a book intit An apology or declaration of the power and providence of God in the government of the World c. written by Dr. George Hakewill Which arguments and digressions are with Hakewills answere involved in the sixth book of the said Apology printed at Oxon the third time 1635. fol. See more in G. Hakewill among the writers an 1649. Bishop Goodman also wrote The Court of K. James by Sir A. W. reviewed 'T is a MS. in a thin fol. in Bodl. Library and hath this beginning I cannot say that I was an eye and ear-witness but truly I have been an observer of the times and what I shall relate of my own knowledge God knows is most true My conjecturals I conceive c. The conclusion which is imperfect is this Yet notwithstanding I have given him Sir A. W. the name of a Knight because he hath pleased so to stile himself and that I might not offend him This manuscript book was made in answer to a published book intit The court and character of King James Lond. 1650. oct written and taken by Sir A. W. Which book being accounted a most notorious Libel especially by the Loyalists and Court-party was also answered in print by Anonymus intit Anlicus Coquinariae or a vindication in answer to a Pamphlet intituled The Court and Character of K. James c. Lond. 1650. The author of the said Court and Character was one Sir Anth. Weldon of Kent whose Parent took rise from Queen Elizabeths Kitchin and left it a legacy for preferment of his Issue Sir Anthony went the same way and by grace of the Court got up to the Green-cloth in which place attending K. James into Scotland he practiced there to libel that Nation Which at his return home was found wrapt up in a Record of that Board and by the hand being known to be his he was deservedly removed from his place as unworthy to eat his bread whose birth-right he had so vilely defamed Yet by favour of the King with a piece of money in his purse and a pension to boot to preserve him loyal during his life tho as a bad creditor he took this course to repay him to the purpose In his life-time he discovered part of this piece to his Fellow-courtier who earnestly disswaded him not to publish so defective and false a scandal which as it seems in Conscience he so declined I have also been credibly informed that Sir A. Weldon did at the beginning of the Long Parliament communicate the MS. of it to the Lady Elizab. Sedley Mother to Sir Will. and Sir Charles accounted a very sober and prudent Woman who after perusal did lay the vileness of it so much to Sir Anthony's door that he was resolved never to make it publick Which perhaps is the reason why a certain author should say that with some regret of what he had maliciously written did intend it for the fire and died repentant tho since stolen to the Press out of a Ladies closet And if this be true our exceptions may willingly fall upon the practice of the publisher of the said libel who by his additions may abuse us with a false story which he discovers to the Reader in five remarkable passages and therefore in some manner gives us occasion to spare our censure on Sir Anthony who was dead some time before the said libel was published The second edition of it printed at Lond. in oct an 1651. is dedicated to the said noble Lady Elizab. Sedley and hath added to it 1 The Court of K. Charles continued unto the beginning of these unhappy times c. 2 Observations instead of a character upon this King from his Childhood 3 Certain Observations before Q. Elizabeths death But these are not animadverted upon by Aulicus Coq or B. Goodman because they came out after they had written their respective answers The said Bishop Goodman hath also written The two mysteries of Christian religion the ineffable Trinity and wonderful incarnation explicated c. Lond 1653. qu. Dedicated by one Epist to Oliver Cromwell L. General and by another to the Master Fellows Scholars and Students of Trin coll in Cambridge Also An Account of his sufferings which is only a little pamphlet printed 1650. BERNARD ADAMS was born in Middlesex in the diocess of London admitted Scholar of Trinity coll in 1583. aged 17 years fellow five years after and when Master of Arts he went into Ireland where by the favour of the Lord
Jam. Mabbe of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day March 16. Joh. Davies of Jesus Coll. Afterwards a reviver of the Welsh Language As for Brent and Mabbe they are to come among the Writers in the second vol. Admitted 117. Bach. of Law Jul… Griffith Powell of Jesus Coll. the eminent Philosopher and Disputant was then tho M. of A. of 4 years standing admitted Bach. of Law Besides him were but three more admitted of whom Tho. May of St. Johns Coll. was one Jan. 17. Mast of Arts. Apr. 3. Sebastian Bonefeild of C. C. Coll. June 19. Tho. Cooper of Ch. Ch. 28. Lancelot Bulkley lately of Brasn C. now of St. Edm. hall He was afterwards Archb. of Dublin Jul. 4. Jo. Parentius a Forreigner of Ch. Ch. who had studied two years in the University of Caen five at Paris and three at Oxon was then admitted One or more of his Sirname were learned Men and Writers but whether this John was a Writer I cannot tell Oct. 14. Clem. Edmonds of All 's Coll. Jan. 30. Sam. Slade of Mert. Coll. This Person who was a Dorsetsh Man born and Fellow of the said Coll. became afterwards a famous Traveller throughout most parts of the World was employed by Sir Hen. Savile to procure what fragments he could of St. Chrysostome in order to have them compared and published And while he was at Venice he became acquainted with that noted Person famous for his speaking and writing pure Greek called Gabriel Archb. of Philadelphia who finding Slade to be admirably well skill'd in the said Language he communicated to him some rare manuscript Fragments of St. Chrysostoms Greek works Which being by him well approved were conveyed into England to Sir Henry In his further travels also for he was in Greece a considerable while he met with other fragments and was so useful in bringing to light a true copie of the works of the said Author that the said Sir Henry could not but acknowledge with due commendations what he had done in that matter See in the eighth vol. of St. Chrysost works published by Sir Henry pag. 215. 920 c. This Mr. Slade who was elder Brother to Matthew Slade whom I have mention'd among the Writers an 1614 died in the Isle of Zant near Peloponesus in his return from his travels before the publication of St. Chrysostomes works and was there buried Adm. 72. Bach. of Phys Jul. 10. Thom. Twyne M. of A. of C. C. Coll. in Oxon afterwards a Student for some years in Cambridge was then admitted Bach. of Physick He took the Degree of Dr. of that faculty at Cambridge as I have before told you among the Writers 17. Matthew Gwinne of St. Johns Coll. See among the Creations â—ollowing Besides these two who were the only Men admitted this year were two admitted to practise of whom Jo. Woolton M. A. and Fellow of All 's Coll. was one Son of Joh. Wâ—olton Bish of Exeter Bach. of Div. Nov… Joh. Dove Feb. 11. Franc. Godwin of Ch. Ch. Mar. 4. Rob. Abbot George Abbot of Ball. Coll. Rich. Parry of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day All these except the first were afterwards Bishops Adm. 15. Doct. of Law Jul. 10. Will. Wilkinson of Cambridge He was about this time Chancellour of the Diocess of Salisbury and died about the latter end of Oct. 1613. ☞ Not one Doct. of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jul. 6. Leonard Tayler of C. C. Coll. Mar. 23. Tho. Aubrey of Ch. Ch. He accumulated the Degrees in Divinity Incorporations July 10. Francis Meres M. A. of Cambridge This Person who was the Son of Tho. Meres of Kirton in Holland in the County of Lincolne was about this time a Minister and Schoolmaster and afterwards Author of a noted School-book called Wits Common-wealth part the second Lond. 1598. oct The first part was put out by N. L. He hath also published Gods Arithmetick Serm. on Eccles 4. 9. Lond. 1597. oct and Sinners guide or the whole regiment of Christian life c. printed 1614. qu. c. and translated into English The devotions of Lewis of Granada Lond. 1598. oct Which is all I know of him only that he was Grandfather to Rob. Meres D. D. and Chancellour of the Church of Lincolne Jul. 10. Gilbert Bourne Doct. of the Laws of the University of Orleance He was Nephew to Gilb. Bourne sometimes Bishop of B. and Wells being Son of his Brother Rich. Bourne of Wyvelscombe in Somersetshire which is all I know of him only that his Testimonial for his Degree in the said University dated in a Congregation celebrated there 8. June 1583 was subscribed by Maximilian de Cobham Tertullian Pine Doct. of the Civil Law lately of St. Johns Coll. in Oxon George Talbot Giles Wroughton Nich. Wilson and George Manwaring English-men that also he was Vicar-general to the Bishop of B. and Wells and dying in Decemb. or thereabouts an 1595 was buried in the Cath. Church of St. Andrew in Wells near the body of his sometimes Wife Jan. 28. Joh. Pilkington M. A. of Cambridge of whom I know no more One of both his names who was Bach. of Divinity was collated by his Brother Jam. Pilkington Bishop of Durham to the Archdeaconry thereof upon the resignation of Joh. Ebden 5. Dec. 1563 and dying 16. Sept. 1581. was buried in the Cathedral Church at Durham Who succeeded him in that Dignity the registers of that Church which are imperfect shew not In July this year was a supplicate made in the ven congregation for one W. L'isle M. of A. of Cambridge to be incorporated in the said Degree but whether he was really incorporated it appears not I take him to be the same with Will. L'isle who after he had been educated in Eaton School was admitted into the society of Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1584. And after he had continued some years in the Degree of M. of A. left his Fellowship because he had Lands fallen to him at Wilburgham in Cambridgshire He became afterwards a rare Antiquary one of the Esquires extraordinary of the Kings body and published A Saxon treatise concerning the old and new Testament written about the time of King Edgar 700 years ago by Aelfricus Abbas thought to be the same that was afterwards Archb. of Canterbury c. Lond. 1623. qu. published from an antient Copy in Sir Rob. Cottons Library with a large and learned Epistle to the Readers set before it by the said L'isle To this book he added these things following first found out by Joh. Josselin servant to Matthew Archb. of Canterbury which had been printed in oct by Joh. Day in the Reign of Qu. Elizab. 1 A testimony of Antiquity shewing the antient faith in the Church of England touching the Sacrament of the body and blood of our Lord c. 'T is the same with A Sermon of the paschal Lamb on Easter day and of the sacramental body and blood of Christ c. Before which is a
Jac. 1. MS. sub an 1611. f Ib. in pat 9. Ja. 1. p. 43. g Ib. in Camd. in Annal Reg. Jac. 1 sub eod an * Hist of the reign of K. Ch. 1. by Ham. L'estrange Lond. 1656. p. 13â— h In the Worthies of England by Tho. Euller a See in his Poems written on several occasions Lond. 1668. p. 31. b In Fragmenta aurea or Poems Lond. 1648. oct p. 10. c See more in his works printed at Lond. 1678. fol. pag. 4. d Hugh or Scren Cressy in his Epist Apologetical printed 1674. §. â— e Tho. Triplet in his Epist dedic before the L. Falkland's book of Infallibility printed 1651. f In the Life of Archb. Laud. and also in his Observations on the Hist of K. Ch. 1. written by Ham. L'estrange printed 1658. p. 122. g See Hen. Hickmans Justification of the Fathers and Schoolmen c. Ox. 1659. sec. edit p. 40. 41. h Bulstrode Whitlock in his Memorials of English effairs printed 1682. p. 70. a. * W. Dugd. in his Antiq. Warwickshire p. â—10 Clar. 1633. a In Orat. sunchri Joh. Rainoldi edit 1608. b Dr. Hugh Weston sometimes Rector of Linc. coll who was his great Uncle See more of him under the year 1558. p. 93. Clar 1633 c Hen. Morus in Hist provinc Anglâ— Soc. Jesu lib. 4 nu 15. d Tho. Bell in his Anatomy of Popish Tyranny lib. 2. cap. 2. e In the Relation of the faction began at Wisbich c. printed 1601. qu. f Printed at S. Omâ—r 1601. in oct fol. 63. b. 64. c. g Sir Ant. Weldon in his book intit The Court of K. Charles continued unto the beginning of these unhappy times c. Printed at the end of The Court and Character of K. James Lond. 1651. sec edit p. 194. 195. a Ham. L'estrange in his Hist of the raign of K. Ch. 1. under the year 1634. b See in the Table of MSS. by Dr. James quoted at the dne of the said Manuduction c In the Breviat of his life p. 19. d In the Will-Office near to S. Pauls Cath. in reg Seager Qu. 84. e See at the end in an append to a book intit A Divine Tragedy lately octed or a collection of sundry memorable examples c. Printed beyond Sea an 1636. qu. 1634 Clar. 1634. Clar. 1634. Clar. 1634. * In the Will-Office near to S. Pauls Cath. Ch. in Reg. Essex part 3. Qu. 143. Clar. 1634. Clar. 1634 * Reg. Convoc N. fol. 234. â— a See in the latter end in his Poems b A Gardiner at Twickâ—am in Mid. as 't is reported c Pat. â— Car. 1. p. 12. Clar. 1635. a Will. Prynne in Canterburies Doâ—me printed 164â— p. 185 b See in the Collection of Letters at the end of Archb. Ushers Life printed at Lond. in fol. 1686. c In Canterburies Doome before mentioned pag. 448. See also p. 412. 559. 1636-37 1656-57 a Printed at Lond. 1638. in tw b In cent 2 Epigram nâ— 16. c In lib 〈◊〉 Epigram p 28. c. Clar. 1636. Clar. 1636. d Reg. Matric P. p. 555. e In his Epigrams nu 14. f In his Fragmenta aurea or Poems Lond. 1648. p. 7. * Dr. G. M. B. of Wint. a In Opusc Philosoph p. 214. being the second of the Preface to his Examen Philosophia Rob. Fluddi Medici c. b Judicium 〈◊〉 Rob. Fluddo in the 268. pag of the said Opuscula which Judicium is placed at the close of Gassindu ' s answer to R. Fludd c In Opusculis ut supra p. 215. d In Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 〈…〉 a. 〈◊〉 * 〈◊〉 at Lond. 1645. p. 184. 1637 â—8 1637 â—8 a Camden in Annal. R. Jac. 1. sub an 1614. MS. b See in Sir Hen. Wottons Letters in Reliq Wottonianae printed 1672. p. 432. c. c Ib. in Annal. Camd. sub an 1615. 1638 â—9 1638 â—9 a Camden ut super in Annal Reg. Jac. 1. MS. sub an 1620. 1638 â—9 Clar. 1638. Clar. 1638. 163â— 1639 †Dr. Joh. Whetcombe Maidennutensium Pastor He died suddenly in the house of Angel Grey Esabque of Kingston near Dorchester in Dorsetshire before the year 1648. aged 60. a Isaac Walton b Camd. in Annal. Jac. 1. MS. sub an 1619. a In Britannia in Com. 〈◊〉 b Idem Camden in Annal. Jac. 1. MS. Sub. an 1616. c Ibid. an 1617. d Baronage of Engl. Vol. 2. Tom. 3. p. 460. 1639-40 e Entit The Court of K. Charles continued unto the beginning of these unhappy times c. Lond. 1651. oct p. 206. 1639-40 1639-40 1639-40 Clar. 1639. * In his English Spanish Pilgrim chap. 7. p. 65. †Will. Sanderson in the Reign and death of K. James Lond. 1655. under the year 1620. p. 491. a In Annal. Reg. Elizab. sub an 1â—98 a Barnab Oley in the life of George Herbert Lond. 1652. and in 1675. 'T is not pag'd b In his Anti-Arminianism or the Church of Englands old Antithesis c. printed 1630. p. 270. c See Canterb. Doom p. 532. d In Append. to Anti-Arminianism c. * 〈…〉 e 〈…〉 p. 508. f Ibid. p. 510. g Rich. Baxter in his book intit An ansavourâ— volume of Mr. Joh. Crandons anatomized Lond. 1654. secâ— 1 p. 6. 1640-1 Clar. 1640. Clar. 1640. a Pat. 14. Hen. 7. p. 2. Memb 4. 1â—00 b In Cur. vel offic Praerog Cant. in reg Moone Qu. 10. c In Hist Antiq. Univ. Ox. lib. 2. p. 130. b. d In lib. Epist Univ. Oxon. notat in dors cum lit â— MS. * Ibid. Ep 254 a In the Visitation book of the County of Surry made by the Deputâ—es of Clarenceaux King of Arms an 1623. in the coll or Office of Arms. b In Birtan in com Dorset c Jo. Budden in Vita obituque Job Moretonâ— Archiep. Cant. Lond. 1607. p. 5. d Fr. Godwin Ep. Lanâ—â—v in Com de Praesul Angl. edit 1616. p. 359. e In Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 1. p. 233. f In lib. Epistoâ—arum Univ. Oxon. â— fol. 14â— b. g Pat. 2. Hen. 7. p. 1 m. 10 h In Offic. Praerog Cant. in reg Moon Qu. 10. * Fr. Godwin in Com. de Presul Angl. ut supra p 295. k pat 1. Rich. 3. p. 3. l pat 8. Hen. 7. p. 2. m. 2. m Rich. Pace in lib. suo cui tit est De fructu qui ex doctrina percipitur Bas. 1517. p. 27 28. 156â— n In reg Moone ut â—upra qu. 10. o In Offic Praerog Cant. in reg Bodfeld Qu. 21. 1501 p Jac. Waraeus in Comment de Praesulibus Hiberniae Edit Dubl 1665. p. 250. q In Offic. ut supra in reg Blamyr Qu. 16. a Pat. 11. Hen. 7. p. 1. in dors b Ibid p. 1. c Pat. 12. Hen. 7. p. 1. m. 5. d Pat. 15. H. 7. p. 1. m. 27. e Pat. 16. H. 7. p. 1. m. 1. f Reg. Epist Univ. Oxon. FF Ep. 518. g Franc. Godwin Ep. Landâ—v in Com. de Praesul Angl. in Cant. h Reg.
by me viz. of Sir Joh. More the Father and his Lady Sir Thomas the Son and his Lady John the Grandson Margaret Elizabeth and Cicely the Grand Daughters c. were most admirably well depicted by the curious hand of Hans Holbin well known to and acquainted with Sir Thomas More Which piece being an original remaineth to this day 1689 in the House â—f the Lenthals at Besills-Lee near to Abendon in Berks. Round which is an Inscription shewing the names and matches of those that are there depicted but now scarce legible To conclude if any curious Person is desirous to know more of this noted Author Sir Tho. More who hath been and yet is wonderfully celebrated throughout the learned World let him consult 1 His life written by Will. Roper before-mention'd 2 Dr. Tho. Stapleton his Book entit De tribus Thomis mostly as to this Sir Tho. More taken from that written by Roper 3 His life written by Thom. More before-mention'd much of which is taken from the former two 4 His life written by J. H. Haddesdon I think collected from Stapleton and More especially the last which was and is scarce to be had 5 A Book written by Maur. Channey or Chawney sometimes a Carthusian near London intit Historia aliquot nostri saeculi c. which Book and its Author I shall mention elsewhere 6 His life intit The mirror of virtue in worldly greatness Paris 1616. in oct 7 A MS. of his life whether a Copy of that MS. written by Roper I know not in the Library of the Free-School at Colchester The Reader is now to know that Will. Roper before-mentioned who married Margaret More was born in Kent and educated for a time in one of the Universities Afterwards he succeeded his Father John Roper in the Office of Prothonotary of the Kings Bench which after he had kept and faithfully performed 54 Years he resign'd it to his Son Thom. Roper The said William was very bountiful both at home and abroad merciful meek and a Staff to such that were poor oppressed and imprison'd At length after he had lived a Widower 33 Years and 82 in this vain World he submitted to fate 4. Januar. 1577. Whereupon his body was buried next to that of Margaret his Wife in a Vault under a Chappel joining to the Chancel belonging to the Church of St. Dunstan in Canterbury The life of Sir Tho. More before-mentioned written by this Will. Roper I have several times perused the beginning of which is Forasmuch as Sir Tho. More Knight c. HENRY STANDISH descended from a right Ancient Family of his Name in Lancashire became when young a Franciscan or Greyfrier but in what convent I know not as yet studied for some time in the convent of his Order at Oxon and partly at Cambridge proceeded D. of D. of this University as a certain Register belonging to his Order tells us made Guardian of the Franciscan convent in London Provincial of his Order and in 1519. being nominated Bishop of St. Asaph received consecration thereunto in the conventual Church of the Franciscans at Oxon before-mention'd on the eleventh of July the same Year In 1526 he with Sir John Baker were sent Ambassadors to Denmark and in 1530 he was one of the Bishops that assisted and directed Qu. Catherine in the sute concerning her divorce from K. Hen. 8. He was esteemed a learned Man of his time and a most zealous favourer and assertor of the Catholick Religion for which had he lived longer he would have suffer'd much He hath written Several Sermons preached to the People Treatise against Erasmus his translation of the New Testament With other things as 't is probable He gave up the Ghost at London in the beginning of August in Fifteen hundred thirty and five year 1535 Whereupon his body was buried in the Church of the Franciscans commonly called Greyfriers in the said City now known by the name of Christ-Church Over his Grave was soon after a Tomb erected with the 13 l. 6. s. 8 d. which he bequeathed for that purpose He gave 40 l. to pave the Choir of the Cath of St. Asaph and for other necessaries five marks to the Franciscans of Oxon to be prayed for ten marks also for the reparation of their Church and for the building of an Isle joining to the said Church forty pounds For exhibition of Scholars in Oxon forty pounds besides legacies to Ralph Standish Lord of Standish in Lancashire his near Kinsman to Agnes Worthington his Sister and Will. Standish his natural Brother See more of this H. Standish in Rich. Kedermyster under the Year 1531. JOHN KYNTON was by rule or order a Minorite or Greyfrier and being a Man of parts and noted for his proficiency in Divinity the Society of Magd. Coll. made choice of him to be their Reader of that faculty within their House Which Office he performing with great honour for several Years the Doctors and Bach. of Div. of the University elected him Margaret Professor in the place of Joh. Roper being then D. of D. and a Person of great note in the University He wrot at the command of the King an 1521. Tract contra doctrinam Mart. Lutheri Whether this or any thing else that he did write were ever printed I know not He died in Fifteen hundred thirty and five and was as I conceive buried in the Chappel of Durham now Trinitie College in Oxon. for on a little Grave-stone there yet remaining is written this Obiit Johannes Kynton Frater minor sacrae Theologiae professor 20. Januar. 1535. WILLIAM TYNDALE otherwise called Hitchins was born on the borders of Wales brought up from a Child in Grammar Logick and Philosophy in this University particularly for the most part in St. Mary Magdalens Hall where having sucked in the Doctrine of Luther read it privatly to certain Students and to some of the Junior Fellows of Magd. Coll. adjoining Whether he took a Degree either by the name of Tyndale or Hitchins it doth not appear in our Registers and whether he was one of the Junior Canons of Cardinal Wolseys Coll. as some think there is no ground or footstep left to perswade us to it From Oxon he went to Cambridge where being well ripened in Gods word he was entertained by one Sir Joh. Welch a Knight of Glocestershire and by him made Tutor to his Children While he continued there he shewed himself so much a friend to Luther and foe to the Pope before several Abbats Doctors and other Men of the Clergy living in the neighbourhood that he was forced merely for the security of his Person to leave that place So that journying to London he endeavoured to get into the Family of Cuthb Tonstall Bishop thereof but being frustrated of his design he was desirous for the good of his Country to translate the New Testament into English but finding no place to do it in England he left his native Country and
went into Germany where setting on the work he finished it in the Year 1527 which was the first translation of it made into English Afterwards going on with the Old Test He finished the five Books of Moses with sundry prologues before every one of them besides other treatises written there Which being sent into England did as esteemed by the then Clergy thereof prove very mischievous to the whole Nation Insomuch that the King was forced to put out a Proclamation prohibiting the buying and reading the said translation or translations Afterwards the King and Council finding that he would do much harm if not removed out of the way they sent to the Emperors Attorney at Bruxels to have him seized Whereupon our Author who was then at Antwerp being snap'd by two Catchpoles appointed by one Hen. Philipps an English Man sent thither on purpose to find him out was after examination sent to Prison in the Castle of Filford 18 Miles distant from Antwerp where continuing for some time did at length suffer death notwithstanding great intercessions were made for him by the English Merchants abiding in that Country as I shall tell you anon He hath written Protestation touching the Resurrection of the Bodies and the State of Souls after this life Preface to the five Books of Moses called Genesis Written in the Year 1530. Jan. 17. Prologue shewing the use of the Scripture Prologues to the five Books of Moses Certain hard words expounded in the first second and fourth Book of Moses Prologue upon the Prophet Jonas the four Evangelists upon the Epistles of St. Paul the Epistles of St. Peter and the 3 Epistles of St. John The Parable of the wicked Mammon Published 1527. May 8. The obedience of a Christian Man and how Christian Rulers ought to govern Published 1528. Oct. 2. and 1561. in oct An Exposition on the 5. 6. and 7 Chapters of St. Matthews Gospel Answer to Sir Tho. Mores Dialogues An. 1530. The practice of papistical Prelates An. 1530. 'T is about the divorce of K. H. 8. A path way into the Holy Scriptures Exposition of the first Epistle of St. John Published in Sept. 1531. in oct Exposition on Mr. Will. Tracies Will. Noremberg 1546. oct Fruitful treatise upon Signes and Sacraments Two Letters to Joh. Fryth Prisoner in the Tower All which were printed in one Vol. in fol. 1573. He is also supposed to be Author of The Supper of the Lord after the true meaning of the 6th of John and the eleventh of the 1. of Cor. And incidently in the exposition of the Supper is confuted the Letter of Sir Tho. More against Jo. Fryth Written Apr. 5. an 1533. This Person Will. Tyndale was first strangled by the hands of the common Hangman and then burnt near to Filford Castle before-mentioned in Fifteen hundred thirty and six year 1536 See his Story at large in Joh. Fox his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. and in Rob. Persons his answer thereunto in The third part of a Treatise intit of three conversions of England c. Printed 1604 chap. 14 p. 170. 171. DESIDERIUS ERASMUS ROTERODAMUS a great and wonderful light of Learning and therefore invited and drawn by Kings and Princes into Germany Italy England and other Regions of Europe was born at Roterdam in Holland 28. of Oct. 1467. This Person tho educated in all kind of Learning beyond the Seas yet he must have a place in these Athenae because he had studied in this University particularly in St. Maries Coll. a place for Canon Regulars of the Order of St. Austin whose great Gate is almost opposite to that of New Inn in the Years 1497. 98 and part if not all of 1499. and as some think in the Year 1518 or 19. when Card. Wolsey founded his Lectures in this University at which time Erasmus read certain Lectures in the publick refectory of Corp. Ch. Coll. The reason of his continuance and studying here I have told you elsewhere and therefore all that I shall now say of him is that his works are printed in 9 Volumes in which are his dissertation De taedio pavore Christi and certain Epistles which he wrot in the said Coll. of St. Mary and that dying at Basil in Germany year 1536 on the 12 of July in Fifteen hundred thirty and six was buried in the Cathedral Church there Soon after was a conspicuous Monument with an Inscription put over his Grave the contents of which I shall now for brevity sake omit His life is twice or more written in Latin tho not so well as it should be and once or more in English which is the reason that I have spoken but briefly of him in this place JOHN RASTALL was a Londoner born and educated for a time in Grammaticals and Philosophicals in this University Afterwards returning to his native place he set up the Trade of Printing being then esteemed a profession fit for any Scholar or ingenious Man This Person being noted for his Piety and Learning became intimate with Sir Tho. More whose Sister Elizabeth he took to Wife and by dayly conference with that most learned Knight he improved his knowledge in various sorts of Learning besides what knowledge he before had gotten in the Mathematicks He was a zealous Man for the Catholick cause and a great hater of the proceedings of King Hen. 8. as to his divorce and for his ejecting the Popes power from the Nation His Writings are Natura naturata 'T is a large and ingenious Comedy containing a description of three parts of the World viz. Asia Africa and Europe adorn'd with Figures and Cuts Canones Astrologici Dialogues concerning Purgatory in 3. Books Apology written against Joh. Fryth Which two last were in vindication of Joh. Fisher B. of Rochester and Sir Thom. More The rules of a good life Anglorum Regum Chronicon with others but as for the Book of Law terms said by Bale to be written by this Author is false for they were written by his Son William as I shall tell you under the Year 1565. This Joh. Rastall died at London year 1536 in Fifteen hundred thirty and six leaving behind him Issue Will. Rastall before mentioned and John Rastall a Justice of Peace who had Issue a Daughter named Elizabeth the Wife of Rob. Lougher L L. D. Chancellor of the Dioc. of Exeter JOHN RYCKS being much addicted in his Youth to Piety and Learning was entred into the Order of the Minorites or Grey friers and among them in Oxon he did spend some time in good Letters At length in his last days being then esteemed a placid old Man when he saw the Pope and his Religion begin to decline in England he became a zealous Protestant and wrot in the English Tongue The image of divine Love Against the blasphemies of the Papists And translated into English Prognosticon of Otho of Brunfeild which he dedicated to Thomas Cromwell Other things he wrot as my
in the Latin and Greek tongues He hath written several things but whether extant I know not Among them are Epistolae ad D. Will. Roperum Epitaphia diversa Opuscula Graece Latinè Written with his own hand and said to be tho I cannot yet in all my searches find them in the Bodleian Library He also translated into English several of the Greek and Latin Orations made by the said Daughter of Will. Roper as by his Epistles in appears What became of this Joh. Morwen when Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown if he lived to that time I cannot tell unless he was received into the Family of the said Roper a great lover of learning and a reliever and comforter of distressed Catholicks JOHN LELAND or Leyland that singular light and ornament of Great Britain was born in London but in what Parish or Year it appears not howbeit the day of his Birth he himself is pleased to tell us In his younger Years being depriv'd of his relations he was taken into the protection of one Tho. Myles a great favourer of learning who not only exhibited to his wants but also took care to have him instructed in Grammar and other juvenile learning under the famous Will. Lilye From his School he was sent to Cambridge where as he himself saith he received the first seeds of Academical Learning in Christ's College and from thence as in another place he tells us he went to Oxon but to what College or Hall therein he adds not Howbeit by sure tradition from Thom. Key of Allsouls College to Thom. Allen of Glocest Hall it appears that he spent several Years in study in the said Coll. of Allsouls which is also noted by Will. Burton the Antiquary of Leicestershire in the Collorary of some part of Leland's Life before the first tome of his Collections After he had spent some time there he journied to Paris where he profited himself much by the reading and learning of Budaeus Faber Paulus Aemilius and Ruellus Returning thence he entred into Holy Orders became Chaplain to K. Hen. 8. and Rector of Poppeling sometimes written Popering and Pepling in the Marches of Calais Afterwards he became Library-keeper to that King and had a Commission from him under the broad Seal an reg 25. Dom. 1533. whereby he was impowered to make a search after England's Antiquities and peruse the Libraries of all Cathedrals Abbies Priories Colleges c. as also all places wherein Records Writings and secrets of Antiquity were reposed Whereupon in few Years after obtaining a special dispensation 12. Jul. 28. Hen. 8. to keep a Curate at Poppeling and make his residence in England or elsewhere at his own liberty he spent more than six Years in rambling to and fro in this Nation and in making researches into the bowels of antiquity undertaking so immense a task that the very thoughts of compleating it did as 't is said distract him At the time of the dissolution of Monasteries he saw with very great pity what havock was made of ancient Monuments of learning and if no remedy should be taken they would all perish Whereupon for prevention sake he wrot a Letter to Cromwell the prime Secretary dat 16. July wherein he intreats him to give him aid and assistance in bringing to light many ancient Authors and in sending them to the King's Library who he knew well had no little esteem for them and adds that it would be a great profit to Students and honour to this Realm whereas now the Germanes perceiving our deridiousness and negligence do senddayly young Scholars hither that spoileth them and cutteth them out of Libraries returning home and putting them abroad as Monuments of their own Country c. On the 3. of Apr. 33. Hen. 8. Dom. 1542. he was presented to the Rectory of Hasely near to and in the County of Oxon and in the beginning of the said Month 1543 the King gave to him by the name of Job Leland Scholar and the King's Chaplain a Canonry or Prebendship of Kings College now Ch. Ch. in Oxon and about that time the Prebendship of East-Knoll and W. Knoll near to Salisbury in Wiltshire but the Canonry of Ch. Ch. he lost in 1545 upon the surrender of that College to the King and in lieu thereof had no pension allow'd him as other Canons had but preferment elsewhere At length having made a grand collection of antiquities he retired to his habitation in the Parish of St. Michael in le Querne in London where spending about six Years more in composing such Books that he had promised to the King did at length upon a foresight that he was not able to perform his promise or as the Roman Catholicks say that he had degenerated from the ancient Religion fall distracted and lost his sense being but a little before esteemed a Person of a clear judgment and of great insight to discern between substantial and superficial learning This his distemper being made known to the King and his Council His Majesty by Letters Pattent dat 21. March 5. Ed. 6. Dom. 1550. did grant the custody of him by the name of John Laylond Junior of St. Michaels Parish in le Querne London Clerk to his Brother John Laylond senior and for his maintenance to receive the profits of Hasely Popplyng E. Knoll and W. Knoll before-mentioned He was esteemed by the generality of Scholars of his time an excellent Orator and Poet learned in the Greek Latin French Italian Spanish British Saxon Welsh and Scotish Tongues a most diligent searcher into antiquity and a favourer and lover of all those that bent their minds that way His enemies or such that cared not for him as Pol. Virgil Dr. Jo. Cay c. did use to say that he was a vain glorious Person and that he promised more than ever he was able to perform and others that his Poetical wit made him so conceited that it was the chief reason of his frensie He hath written Naenia in mortem Thomae Viati equitis incomparabilis Lond. 1542. 'T is a Lat. Poem in one sheet and an half in qu. Genethliacom illustriss Eadverdi principis Cambriae Ducis Coriniae Comitis Palatini c. Printed 1543. A Lat. Poem in 4. sheets in qu. Syllabus interpretatio antiquarum dictionum quae passim per libellum praedictum lectore occurrunt Printed with the former an 1543. Assertio inclytiss Arturii regis Britanniae Lond. 1544. qu. Elenchus antiquarum nominum Printed with the Assertio inc Cygnea Cantio Lond. 1545. 'T is a Lat. Poem in about 5 sheet in qu. There again 1658. in oct Commentarii in Cyg cantionem indices Britannicae antiquitatis locupletissimi Printed with the two said Editions of Cyg Cant. Laudatio pacis Lond. 1546. A Lat Poem in 2 sh in qu. A New-years-gift to K. Hen. 8. 37 Year of his Reign concerning his laborious journey and search for Englands antiquities Lond. 1549. Oct. Published with
annotations thereon by Joh. Bale who hath added thereunto of his own A register of the names of English Writers whom the second part of his work De Scriptorib Britanniae shall comprehend Principum ac illustrium aliquot eruditorum in Angliâ virorum Encomia Trophaea Genethliaca Epithalamia c. Lond. 1589. qu. Published by Tho. Newton of Cheshire These are all the Books composed by him that are published Those that he left behind him in MS. are these following Collectaneorum volumen primum Collections from various Authors viz. from Chronologies ancient Charters Leiger-Books Histories Annals publick and private Writings c. Written with Lelands own hand mostly in Latin in folio containing 913 pages and all collected from MSS. and nothing from Authors that were then Printed There are in this Book many needless additions and illustrations put in by Will. Burton of Lindley whom I shall anon mention who hath written some part of the life of Leland before and has made a useful index to it Collect. vol. 2. Collections from various Authors in MS. viz. Chronologies Annals c. in fol. containing 382. pages Collect. vol. 3. Containing the Catalogues of MSS. in the Libraries of several religious Houses Cathedrals Colleges c. Collections also from Monkish Authors concerning the foundations restaurations c. of religious places and other matters of considerable moment In p. 117 is part of an Itinerary through Devonshire and p. 127 c. is something of Kent In p. 149 c. is something of Herefordshire and p. 204 of Lincolnshire Afterwards follow the meaning and original of words from several old Dictionaries This vol. contains in writing under Lelands hand 287 pages in fol. and hath at the end his New-years-gift to K. Hen. 8. Collect. vol. 4. Containing the lives and characters of most of the eminent Writers of England written in Latin with Leland's own hand an 1546. and containeth 354 pages in fol. One or more Copies of this Book are in private hands An Itinerary throughout most parts of England In five volumes in qu. This Iter was began about 38. H. 8. Dom. 1538 and the volumes were written with his own hand but by the negligence of those who have had the custody of them after the Authors death most of them have taken wet and are not legible About the Year 1631. Will. Burton before-mentioned caused all the said five volumes to be transcribed into one folio which with the originals were by him soon after given to the publick Library of Oxon. Collections concerning English Families and their originals of relations of matters of antiquity from divers Persons of Towns and religious Houses which he accidentally found in record or by tradition of Rivers in several Counties and also collections from various MSS. c. All which are contained in two quartoes under Leland's hand writing and go under the names of the sixth and seventh volumes of his Itineraries and stand and are mix'd with the other five in the Archives of the publick Library Collectiones ex antiquissimis authoribus desumptae quae ad Britanniam spectant MS. in Cotton ' s Library under Julius C. 6. Codrus sive liber contra Polydorum Virgilium de erroribus in scriptis suis MS. An exemplar of which I have seen Naenia in mort Hen. Duddelegi Dudley Equitis MS. in qu. Bononia Gallo-Mastix in laudem victoris feliciss Hen. 8. Anglici Francici Scottici c. MS. in qu. With other things which you may see in Balcus and Pitseus All which MSS. and collections with many other matters of moment were after Leland's death taken by command from Ed. 6 into the custody of Sir John Cheek Tutor to the said King who not long after gave the four tomes or vol. of his collections before-mention'd to Humph. Purefoy Esq afterwards of the Privy Council to Queen Elizabeth in the North parts of England whose Son Tho. Purefoy of Barwell in Leicestershire giving them to Will. Burtâ—n of Lyndley in the same County in the Year 1612 came many Years after by his gift when he had made use of them in compiling his Description of Leicestershire to the Bodlcian or pub Library at Oxon together with the Itinerary in five with the other two quartoes where they yet in the Archives of that Library remain As for some other of his Collections they came after the death of Sir John Cheek into the hands of Will Lord Pagit and Sir Will. Cecyll but to whom from them I find not Perhaps among the said Collect. were those that came afterwards into Sir Rob. Cotton's hands and the Itinerary into those of Will. Burton before-mention'd Howsoever it is sure I am that several eminent Antiquaries have made use of them especially Joh. Bale in his second edition of British Writer but not in the same words that Leland wrot For as he delivered things impartially and in smooth language so Bale quite contrary and full of scurrilities Camden also though now and then he doth mention his Author Leland yet he made considerable use of his Collections in the composing of his Britannia Sir Will. Dugdale hath perused them several times and made great use of them in his Antiquities of Warwickshire and in his volumes called The Baronage of England but withal quotes him honestly for every thing that he hath taken from them To conclude this great Antiquary J. Leland dying on the 18 day of April in Fifteen hundred fifty and two year 1552 was buried in the Church of St. Michaels in le Querne in London Which Church having been situated near to the old cross in West-cheap and not far from the East part of St. Paul's Cathedral was totally burnt down in the grand conflagration an 1666. So that soon after its Parish being united to another the foundation of the said Church was level'd and pitched with Stones as the rest of the street adjoining was and at the East-end where stood the Altar or thereabouts was erected a Conduit of stone to serve the inhabitants of the neighbourhood with water JOHN CLERKE who is reported by a learned Author to be descended from famous and noble lineage was educated in Grammaticals Logicals and Philosophicals among the Oxonians for a time but in what House I cannot as yet tell Afterwards he travell'd into several Countries fell into the company and acquaintance of Rich. Paice mention'd under the Year 1532. studied together in Italy and contracted between them such a faithful and constant friendship that the like could not be read in any Author All things were in a manner common between them and what was by either read or observed was forthwith communicated to each others great advantage After his return to his native Country he was highly esteemed for his accomplishments especially for his exact knowledge in the Latin French and Italian Tongues Whereupon being taken into the service of Thomas the great and mighty Duke of Norfolk was by him made his Secretary a
returned and was made the first Canon of the seventh Stall in the collegiate Church of St. Peter in Westminster an 1560. and soon after about the beginning of the year 1561. he was made Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral in the place of Will. May L. L. D. Master of Trin. coll in Cambr. the same who in 1549. had a hand in compiling the first Edition of the Common Prayer and in correcting the the third Edit in 1559. So that Nowell being settled in the Deanry of Pauls resigned Westminster and afterwards became a frequent and painful Preacher and a zealous writer against certain English Catholicks that had fled their Country upon account of Religion For 30 years together he Preached the first and last Sermons in the time of Lent before the Queen wherein he dealt plainly and faithfully with her without dislike In 1594. Apr. 28. he was installed Canon of Windsor in the place of Rich. Reve Bach. of Div. deceased in the year after Sept. 6. he was elected Principal of Brasnose coll and in oct following he was actually created D. of Divinity with allowance of Seniority over all the Doctors then in the University not only in regard had to his age but Dignity in the Church He was in the time he lived a learned Man charitable to the poor especially if they had any thing of a Scholar in them and a great comforter of afflicted Consciences His Works are A reproof of a book intit A proof of certain Articles in Religion denied by Master Jewel set forth by Tho. Dorman Bach. of Div. Lond. 1565. qu. Reproof of Mr. Dormans proof continued with a defence of the chief authority of Princes as well in causes Ecclesiastical as Civil within their Dominions by Mr. Dorman maliciously impugned Lond. 1566. qu. Confutation as well of Mr. Dormons last book intit A defence c. as also of Dr. Saunder's Causes of Transubstantiation Lond. 1567. qu. Catechismus sive prima institutio disciplinaque pietatis Chistianae Latinè explicata Lond. 1570 71 74 76. qu. There again 1590. 1603. c. oct Translated into English by Tho. Norten Lond. 1571. and into Greek by Will. Whittaker an 1575. c. Catechismus parvus pueris primum qui ediscatur proponendus in Scholis Lond. 1574. 78. oct c. Written in Lat. and Greek Translated also into English by another person Lond. 1587. oct c. and into Hebrew by Anon but this last I have not yet seen Conference had with Edm. Campian Jesuit in the Tower of London ult Aug. 1581. Lond. 1583. qu. See more in Joh. Redman under the year 1551. This reverend Dr. Nowell died in a good old age on the 13. Feb. in sixteen hundred and one and was buried in the Chappel of the Virgin Mary within the Cathedral of St. Paul Soon after was a comely Monument set over his Grave with an inscription thereon in Prose and Verse a copy of which you may see in Jo. Stow's Survey of London and elsewhere And of his benefaction to Brasnose coll and other matters you may read in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Ox. lib. 2. p. 214. b. 225. b. In his Deanty of St. Paul succeeded Joh. Overhall the King's Professor of Div. in Cambridge a general learned Scholar preferred to it by the commendations to the Queen of Sir Fulk Grevill his Patron HARBERT WESTPHALING Son of Harbert Westphaling Son of Harbert a Native of Westphalia in Germany from whom by a popular Errour the Son who lived mostly in London and this his Grandson were called Westphaling At 15 years of age in 1547. which was the year after K. Hen. 8. had put his last hand to the foundation of Ch. Church he was made one of the Students thereof took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1555. applied his studies to the Supreme Faculty was admitted to the reading of the Sentences in Dec. 1561. and in the beginning of March following he was installed Canon of the said Church being about that time Rector of Brightwell near Watlington in the County of Oxon. In 1565. he was licensed to proceed in his Faculty in the year following he learnedly disputed before Q. Elizabeth in S. Maries Church and in the beginning of 1577. he was installed Canon of Windsor in the place of Dr. Ant. Rush deceased In 1585. Dec. 12. he was consecrated Bishop of Hereford in which County he had several Lands and Inheritances where as throughout the Nation he was esteemed a person of great gravity integrity and most worthy of his Function He hath written Treatise of Reformation in Religion divided in seven Sermons Preached in Oxford on Matth. 21. 12 13. Lond. 1582. qu. Two Sermons touching the Supper of the Lord on 1 Cor. 11. 28 29. and on Matth. 26. v. 26 27 28. Lond. 1582. qu. and perhaps other things but such I have not yet seen He paid his last debt to Nature on the first day of March in sixteen hundred and one and was buried in the North transcept of the Cath. at Hereford In his Will he bequeathed the Mannour of Batche in Herefordshire to Jesus coll for the maintenance of two Fellows and two Scholars conditionally that his kindred be preferred to the said places before all others His picture is painted on the Wall in the School-Gallery at Oxon. next to that of Dr. Eâ—des as having in his time been a famous Theologist CHRISTOPHER GOODMAN was born in Cheshire particularly as I conceive within the City of Chester became a Student in Brasnose coll 1536. aged seventeen or thereabouts took one degree in Arts but was never as I can yet find Fellow of that House In 1544. he proceeded in that faculty and three years after was constituted one of the Senior Students of Ch. Church being then newly founded by K. Hen. 8. In the year 1551. or thereabouts he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences at which time he was as 't is said Reader of the Divinity Lesson in the Vniversity but whether of that founded by the Lady Margaret or by K. H. 8. seems as yet doubtful In the beginning of Q. Mary he left the University and went with several Academians beyond the Sea for Religion sake but dissenting from the chief body of them assembled at Frankfort he did with Whittyngham Knox Gilby c. retire to Geneva as may be farther seen in a book intit A brief discourse of the troubles began at Frankfort c. printed 1575. qu. wherein as in other places the turbulent spirit of this person may be discern'd A noted author tells us that he was a most pernicious fellow for that he not only practiced against the life of Q. Mary but wrote also that most seditious known Libel against the regiment of Women c. This Goodman I say being a furious hot spirit and guilty in conscience of wicked attempts but especially as was thought of the conspiracy with Will. Thomas that would have killed Q. Mary ran out